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- Education was a key factor in the struggle of Monticello's enslaved community and their descendants to win their rights to full citizenship.
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Education was a key factor in the struggle of Monticello's enslaved community and their descendants to win their rights to full citizenship.
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Monticello sits atop a lofty hill in Albemarle County, Virginia, not far from the birthplace of Thomas Jefferson, its creator and most prominent resident, who spent more than four decades ...
In 1994 the foundation established the Robert H. Smith International Center for Jefferson Studies, which includes an archaeology department that conducts fieldwork throughout the Monticello grounds. Large visitor and education centres opened in 2009. Monticello today functions as a museum and is a major tourist attraction. Marc Leepson
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The Foundation still owns and operates Monticello, adhering to a mission of preservation and education. In 1987, Monticello became the only house in America to be named to the World Heritage List, a register of buildings and sites deemed to have outstanding universal value by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization ...
The World Heritage Sites were chosen because they “represent a masterpiece of human creative genius” and “exhibit an important interchange of human values.” Monticello is the only U.S. presidential and private home on the UNESCO World Heritage List.
Against almost insurmountable odds, African Americans living at Monticello strove to learn their letters—from friends and relatives or from Jefferson’s grandchildren. They cherished becoming literate and passed on to their descendants a thirst for education. In his 1873 recollections, Israel Gillette Jefferson explained, “I consider what education I have as a legitimate fruit of freedom ...
