CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA (CVILLE RIGHT NOW) – Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello Monday announced identification of six additional individuals enslaved by Thomas Jefferson.
According to a Monticello release, the six names were the first additions in August to Monticello’s Contemplative Site, a mountaintop memorial erected in 2023 to honor and list the known names of those enslaved by Jefferson over the course of his lifetime.
The names were dedicated in an August private ceremony of Moses who was born in 1790, Nanny born in 1776, Mary Ann Hern born in late 1823, Robert born about 1815-to-1818, Child born in 1802, and Child born about 1815-to-1819…