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Jefferson Vindicated
(Burton)

Jeffery (slave)

Jemmy (slave)

John (slave)

Johnson, Samuel

Johnson, Walter

Jones, John Paul

Jones, Meriwether

Jones, Nellie E.

Jordan, Daniel P.

Jouett, Jack

Julien, Honoré

 

Kelso, William

Kentucky

Kern, Susan

Kimball, Fiske

Kluge, John

Kosciuszko, Thaddeus

Kukla, Jon

 

Lafayette, Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de

Lander, Eric S.

Langhorne, Elizabeth

Lavoisier, Antoine

Lee, Robert E.

Lemaire, Etienne

Lewinsky, Monica

Lewis, Nicholas

Lewis and Clark expedition

Lexington, Ky.

“Life Among the Lowly, No. 1”

Lilly, Gabriel

Lilly, Wilson

Lincoln, Abraham

Little Bighorn, Battle of

Livingston, Robert

Locke, John

Lord, Alfred

Louisiana Purchase

Lucy (slave)

Lundy (slave)

Luzerne, Anne-César, Chevalier de La

Lynchburg, Va.

 

Madison, Dolley

Madison, James (bishop)

Madison, James (president)

Madison, Wis.

magnetometry

Malesherbes, Guillaume-Chrétien de Lamoignon de

Malone, Dumas

“Mammy Dinah”

Manahan, Anna Anderson

Mansfield, Harvey C.

Mapp, Alf, Jr.

“Marriage Settlement for Martha Jefferson”

Marshall, John

Martin, Russell Lionel, III

Maryland

Mason, George

Massachusetts Historical Society

Mayer, David N.

McColley, Robert

McCoy, Mary (slave)

McDonald, Forrest

McGehee, William

McLaughlin, Jack

Melville, Herman

Memoirs of a Monticello Slave
(Granger)

métayage

Mifflin, Daniel

Mifflin, Warner

Mill, John Stuart

Miller, John Chester

miscegenation, racial,
see
interracial relations

Mississippi River

Moby-Dick
(Melville)

Monroe, James

Montalto Mountain

Montesquieu, Baron de La Brède et de

Monticello: agriculture at; Ancient Field of; approach road for; archaeological excavation of; artifacts related to; Bacon's house at; blacksmiths for; British raid on; canal for; carpentry shop of; cellars of; cemeteries of; charts and maps of; Chastellux's visit to; chefs and cooks of; clay soil of; construction of; cooper shop at; cotton crop of; dependencies of; design of; Dutch recapitalization for; engineering projects at; as family residence; farm accounts for; financing of; forests of; gardens of; gristmill for; harvests of; hearths at; kitchen of; landscape of; laundry for; living conditions at; mansion at; manufacturing at; Mulberry Row of; naileries (nail factories) at; overseers of; parking lots at; as plantation; profit-sharing at; research library of; Rochefoucauld-Liancourt's visit to; roundabouts of; sale of; slave culture at; slave graveyard at; slave managers of; slave population of; slave quarters at; terrace of; textile mill for; tinsmiths for; tobacco crop of; tourists at; tunnels underneath; visitors to; wheat crop of; white artisans at; workshops at

Monticello Mountain

Morgan, Edmund

Morgan, Philip

Morse, Jedidiah

Morven plantation

Moses (slave)

Mount Rushmore

Mount Vernon

“Mr. Jefferson's Business” (Martin)

mulattoes

 

Napoleon I, Emperor of the French

Native Americans

natural law

Nature

Neilson, Joseph

Neiman, Fraser

Newman, Richard

New Orleans

New York State

New York Times

Nicholas, Wilson Cary

Nicholas II, Tsar of Russia

Niebuhr, Reinhold

Notes on the State of Virginia
(Jefferson)

 

“Observations on Soup” (Jefferson)

“Of the Construction of Saucepans and Stewpans for Fixed Fireplaces”

Ohio

Oldham, James

“On the Construction of Kitchen Fireplaces and Kitchen Utensils”

Onuf, Peter

Ordinance of 1784

Ore, Billy

“oyer and terminer” court

 

Page, William

Paine, Thomas

Palladio, Andrea

Papers
(Jefferson)

Parthena (slave)

Parton, James

Patt (slave)

Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania Society for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery

Perry, John

Petersburg, Va.

Peterson, Merrill

Phil (slave)

Philadelphia, Pa.

philosophes

Pierson, Hamilton W.

Pike County Republican

Pilgrim Society

Pleasants, Robert

Pocahontas

Pope, Alexander

Poplar Forest plantation

Powhatans

“presentism”

Price, Richard

Prince of Wales

Pybus, Cassandra

 

Quakers

Quomina (slave)

“Quotations on Slavery and Emancipation” (Monticello website)

 

Rand, Ayn

Randall, Henry

Randolph, Anne Cary

Randolph, Cornelia

Randolph, Edmund

Randolph, Ellen

Randolph, George Wythe

Randolph, James Madison

Randolph, Martha Jefferson (“Patsy”)

Randolph, Sarah

Randolph, Septimia (“Tim”)

Randolph, Thomas Jefferson (“Jeff”)

Randolph, Thomas Mann

Randolph, Thomas Mann, Jr.

Randolph, Thomas Mann, III

Randolph, Virginia

Raynal, Abbé

Republican Party

rice

Richmond, Va.

Richmond
Enquirer

Richmond
Examiner

Richmond
Recorder

Rind, William

Rittenhouse, David

Rivanna River

Robin (slave)

Rochefoucauld-Liancourt, Duke de La

root cellars

Rush, Benjamin

 

Safire, William

Sally Hemings: A Novel
(Chase-Riboud)

Scholars Commission on the Jefferson-Hemings Matter

Schulman, Gayle

Sedition Act (1798)

Seeing Jefferson Anew: In His Time and Ours
(Boles and Hall, eds.)

Senate, U.S.

September 11th attacks (2001)

Shackelford, Tom (slave)

Shadwell plantation

sharecroppers

Shenstone, William

Short, William

“silent profit”

Skelton, Bathurst

Skelton, Meriwether

slavery/slaves (
see also
enslaved people): abolition of; African ancestry and traditions of; “agency” in; amelioration and diffusion of; as apprentices and artisans; auctions of; beating and whipping of; British opposition to; as “burden” for slave owners; catchers used for; census of; chaining of; as “childlike” or “incompetent”; children of; collars used for; colonies proposed for; as concubines; congressional debate on; constitutionality of; contracts with; death of; drinking by; drivers of; economic impact of; education of; elderly; emancipation of; enfranchisement for; equal rights for; executions of; expulsions of; families of; female; field; folktales and songs of; forced migration of; former, military service of; “free papers” of; French criticism of; fugitive or runaway; graveyards of; hanging of; healers used by; health of; hired; houses; as immoral system; imprisonment of; as inheritance; as institution; intelligence of; interracial relations of; laws on; living conditions of; manumission of; market for; marriages of; masters of (slave owners); myths about; as nannies; newspaper notices for; “passing” by (color line); personal loyalty of; plantation culture of; poisoning of; popular attitudes toward; population of; pregnancies of; “privilege”; productivity of; profit from; as property; quasi-freedom of; racist views on; rape of; rebellions by; re-enslavement of; religious background of; religious opposition to; during Revolution; sale of; skilled; skin color of; smallpox contracted by; social impact of; in Southern states; suicide of; in territories; theft by; tips given to; trade in; training of; “transporting” of; trials of; wages paid to; as wet nurses; white artisans and farmers compared with

Sloan, Herbert E.

Smith, Margaret Bayard

Society of Friends of the Blacks

Solomon (slave)

Somerset
decision (1772)

Sophocles

Sorensen, Leni

South Carolina

Spain

Stanton, Lucia

Sterne, Laurence

Stewart, William

Stras, George

Stratford Hall plantation

Styron, William

sub-floor pits

Summary View of the Rights of British America, A
(Jefferson)

Supreme Court, U.S.

swept yards

 

Tarleton, Banastre

taxation

Taylor, Alan

tenant farmers

Thomas Jefferson: An Intimate History
(Brodie)

Thomas Jefferson: Fighter for Freedom and Human Rights
(Daugherty)

Thomas Jefferson Heritage Society

Thomson, Charles

Ticknor, George

Time

tobacco

Tocqueville, Alexis de

Tom (slave)

Tournillon (plantation owner)

Towne, Robert

Treaty of Paris (1783)

Trist, Elizabeth

Trist, Nicholas

Trist, Virginia Randolph

Tristram Shandy
(Sterne)

Tuckahoe plantation

Tufton farm

Turner, Nat

Turner, Robert F.

Twain, Mark

 

Underground Railroad

United States: agriculture in; British relations with; democratic government of; economy of; French relations with; immigration to; territories of

 

Valley of Virginia

Van Staphorst, Jacob

Van Staphorst, Nicholas

Van Staphorsts & Hubbard

Vergennes, Charles Gravier, Comte de

Virginia: Assembly of; British invasion of; Chesapeake region of; colonial period of; Eastern Shore of; economy of; emancipation movement in; free blacks in; House of Burgesses of; Jefferson as governor of; legislature of; manumission law of (1782); manumissions in; markets in; plantations in; removal law of (1806); slavery in; as Southern state; taxation in

Virginia, University of

Virginia Federalist

Virginia Gazette

Voltaire

 

Waldstreicher, David

Walker, Betsy

Walker, John

Wallenborn, White McKenzie

Wall Street Journal

War of 1812

Washington, Booker T.

Washington, D.C.

Washington, George

Washington Federalist

Washington Post

Wasp

Watson, Davy

Wayles, John

Way of an Eagle, The
(Daugherty)

Wayson, Billy

Webster, Daniel

Wetmore, S. F.

wheat

Wheatley, Phillis

Wheeler, Derek

White House

Whitman, Walt

Whitney, Eli

Will (slave)

William and Mary, College of

Williamsburg, Va.

Wingo's farm

Wood, Gordon

Woodson, Tom (“President Tom”) (slave)

Wythe, George

 

Yancey, Joel

Yarbrough, Jean

Yorktown, Battle of

 

Zuckerman, Michael

Also by Henry Wiencek

Mansions of the Virginia Gentry

Plantations of the Old South

The Smithsonian Guides to Historic America: Southern New England
and
Virginia and the Capital Region

The Moodys of Galveston

National Geographic Guide to America's Great Houses
(with Donna M. Lucey)

Old Houses

The Hairstons: An American Family in Black and White

An Imperfect God: George Washington, His Slaves, and the Creation of America

Farrar, Straus and Giroux
18 West 18th Street, New York 10011

Copyright © 2012 by Henry Wiencek
Maps and family trees copyright © 2012 by Jeffrey L. Ward
All rights reserved
Distributed in Canada by D&M Publishers, Inc.

An excerpt from
Master of the Mountain
originally appeared, in slightly different form, in
Smithsonian
.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Wiencek, Henry.

Master of the mountain: Thomas Jefferson and his slaves / Henry Wiencek.—1st ed.

p. cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN: 978-1-4668-2778-3

1. Jefferson, Thomas, 1743–1826—Relations with slaves.
2. Monticello (Va.)—History. 3. Slaves—Virginia—Albemarle County—History. 4. Plantation life—Virginia—Albemarle County—History. I. Title.

E332.2. W54 2012
973.4'6092—dc23

2011052231

Designed by Jonathan D. Lippincott

www.fsgbooks.com

*
John spelled the name “Hemmings.”

*
Jefferson's father, Peter, gave his slaves only a pot and a pothook; everything else they had to get for themselves.

*
Randolph remarked on the pervasive, indeed defining influence of slavery upon a society, writing that colonies with few slaves were “dissimilar…in manners, habits, ideas of religion and government from the states abounding in slaves.” James Monroe made a similar remark to Edward Coles (see
40
)

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