... , not just a house, but a farm and a plantation. The Monticello plantation of 5,000 acres, with its four farms, was a center of agriculture and industry, and was home not only to the Jefferson family, but also to workers, black and white, enslaved and free. On the quarter farms of Shadwell, Tufton, and Lego -- as well as the home farm on Monticello Mountain -- 130 enslaved African ... located on the grounds of the estate. A National Historic Landmark, George Washington's estate and gardens, Mount Vernon, is set on 40 wooded acres. The house was built by the Washington family about 1735, ...

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... the finest gardens in America. Jefferson did not consider himself a professional politician. Instead, he regarded himself as a public-spirited citizen and a broad-minded, practical thinker. He preferred his family, his books, and his farms to public life. But he spent most of his career in public office and made his greatest contribution to his country in the field of politics. The tall ... homes for slaves who had escaped from the South to Washington. In the 1870's, she tried to persuade the federal government to set aside undeveloped lands in the West as farms for blacks. But her plan...

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... Washington became increasingly conscious of the contradiction between this struggle and the system of slavery. In this paper I will discuss the life of Washington's family and his slaves at Mount Vernon. During the 17th and 18th centuries, chattel slavery was a common aspect of American society; so common in fact ... slaves left accounts of their lives, much is known about certain slaves and their Mount Vernon community through the writings of George Washington and his family members, as well as interviews with several slaves after Washington's death. A carpenter named Sambo Anderson wa...

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... . These wives were left at home while these men did their jobs to run the nation. "Although cities were growing with their shops and conveniences, most women still lived on farms and produced everything they used. As towns sprouted up, women started specializing-- one doing the soap making, another the cheese and butter churning, another the weaving. They bartered with each ... one example of what these women were like as they were left to their own devices at home. Martha Washington led a slightly different life than Eliza. She was born into a family of planters, and was one of seven ch...

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... and Mary in 1762, Jefferson studied law for five years under George Wythe. In January of 1772, he married Martha Wayles Skelton and made himself a home in Monticello to raise a family. When he and Martha moved to Monticello, only a small one-room building was completed for them to stay in. Jefferson was thirty years old when he first began his political ... passion for architecture cost him a small fortune. At the final stage of his financial distress, Jefferson petitioned the Virginia legislature to grant him permission to dispose of Monticello and its farms by lottery. The almost imme...

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... spent his early years living in Wakefield, Virginia. From ages three to six, The Washington's lived in " Little Hunting Creek" which later became known as Mount Vernon. In 1738, the family picked up and moved to a place called Ferry Farm, which is across the river from Fredricksburg. George suffered many childhood tragedies as his half brother Butler As well as his ... half sister Jane both died. George's father, Augustine, died when George was only eleven. Augustine's farms were allotted to his two sons; Augustine and Lawrence. George inherited Ferry Farm after the death of his mother....

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