Thomas Jefferson at Monticello 

Toured here about 20 years ago. This is one place I would really like to get back to now that I've read so much more about all things Jefferson over those years. If you haven't had the chance yet, check out the book 'Saving Monticello' which tells the Levy story. It's incredible what was done to save the property.

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Jefferson's Library: You can go into the Library of CONGRESS where they have them displayed, the actual ones or period copies that have been gathered up; with blank edge bindings showing what they were also included.

Nice Nickel Toss! Thank you for your work. 🙏🇺🇸❤️

Thanks for this. Didn't know Jefferson vowed to his wife not to remarry when she died, and then there was Sally. What a conundrum.

That’s a new one for me. Monticello is in the nickel!! Outstanding. Cheers y’all.

Wow. Great Video! Full of history. Can Do!

Thank you for the information about Sally Hemings. Everyone just assumes that Thomas Jefferson fathered her children but that that has never been confirmed is very interesting to me. I love seeing the artifacts and the things that he and his family would have actually handled. To be able to actually lay your hands on history is amazing. And I love the story about his promise to not remarry and his faithfulness to that promise. Hugs to you all!

Very nice toss with the nickel. Plus I learned how to pronounce the name of President Jefferson's house.

Very well done. Thank you Sally was very beautiful!

Very cool video. I actually got to visit about 10 years ago. Very beautiful there

What I think it boils down to is this, he was a human being, capable of both good and bad. We have an advantage on Jefferson, we know how everything turns out, but he was in the thick of it. Trying to appease the southern states, saying it is a battle for another time. It is Benjamin Franklin that takes the articles against slavery out of the Constitution. I don't think the USA would be the same place without him.

Getting a wealth of information today. How the Library of Congress got started. Very cool fact.

Thats one georgous home of Thomas Jefferson

Another interesting video I always assumed Jefferson fathered children with Hemmings I wasn’t aware that was more speculation than provable fact. Another reason Jefferson is considered a paradox is he always wrote and preached the president has ONLY powers granted by the Constitution, yet he purchased Louisiana. Jefferson took a strict, literal view of constitutional powers, meaning that specific powers reserved for the President and Executive Branch needed to be spelled out in the Constitution. The ability to buy property from foreign governments was not among these powers listed in the Constitution. There was a debate in Congress if Jefferson had the authority to buy Louisiana. The debate in the Senate only lasted for two days. On October 20, 1803, the Senate voted for ratification 24-7, and the treaty was signed on October 31, 1803. In the treaty’s aftermath, although some Federalists continued to view the Louisiana Purchase as unconstitutional, the purchase was never questioned in court. If it had been, Jefferson may have come in conflict with his own cousin and political rival, Supreme Court Chief Justice John Marshall. Also on March 2, 1807, the U.S. Congress passed a landmark piece of legislation to end the profitable international slave trade. President Thomas Jefferson, who had promoted the legislation, promptly signed the act, making it law. The act went into effect on January 1, 1808, prohibiting from that time on the importation of African slaves to the United States. Yet as you pointed out, he freed very few of his own slaves.. It boggles the mind. Are you planning to visit any Civil War battlefields? Virginia is littered with them.

I am a Carr descendant.

Wow, you are the only ones there.

A Point of Knowledge...... Virginia has a form Of Term Limits, But only for the Governor, based on Thomas Jefferson's wishes; he served Several terms as the Governor of Virginia, but let others rule between his Periods of Service. Today you can serve for one four year Term, then are banned from running to succeed yourself, but the next Election is yours to run if desired, repeat and repeat again as OLDE Tom did.

While a paradox, we must look through the lens of the time, and not the lens of today. Slavery pre-dates the United States by more than a thousand years, we had to fight a civil war to realize what it really was and put an end to it; at least in the United States.

The paradox is about debt. Jefferson was a slave to his creditors, hence his comments about banks and corporations. The slaves were collateral. He didn't have the cash to free them and raising the cash would have required liqudating everything. He speculated on some ventures and agricultural technology that didn't yield. It's clear he hoped to keep his lifestyle and to do the right thing, but he could afford it. Instead, the banks kept extending his terms, he maintained status quo deeper in debt, and his estate was insolvent when he passed.

So it's kept.by the Jefferen decedants

Thomas jefferson is my 1st cousin 7 times removed.