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Memoirs of a Monticello Slave--Dictated to Charles Campbell in the 1840's by Isaac, One of Thomas Jefferson's Slaves (Paperback)
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Memoirs of a Monticello Slave--Dictated to Charles Campbell in the 1840's by Isaac, One of Thomas Jefferson's Slaves (Paperback)
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Memoirs of a Monticello Slave--dictated to Charles Campbell in the
1840's by Isaac, one of Thomas Jefferson's slaves
By Isaac Jefferson
Contents
Foreword
Isaac Jefferson's Memoirs
Notes
Biographical Data concerning Isaac
Biographical Data concerning Campbell
Excerpt from Chapter I
Isaac Jefferson was born at Monticello: his mother was named Usler
but nicknamed Queen, because her husband was named George and
commonly called King George. She was pastry-cook and washerwoman:
stayed in the laundry. Isaac toated wood for her: made fire and so
on. Mrs. Jefferson would come out there with a cookery book in her
hand and read out of it to Isaac's mother how to make cakes, tarts
and so on.
Mrs. Jefferson was named Patsy Wayles, but when Mr. Jefferson
married her she was the widow Skelton, widow of Batter Skelton.
Isaac was one year's child with Patsy Jefferson: she was suckled
part of the time by Isaac's mother. Patsy married Thomas Mann
Randolph. Mr. Jefferson bought Isaac's mother from Col. William
Fleming of Goochland. Isaac remembers John Nelson, an Englishman at
work at Monticello: he was an inside worker, a finisher. The
blacksmith was Billy Ore; the carriage-maker Davy Watson: he worked
also for Colonel Carter of Blenheim, eight miles from Monticello.
Monticello-house was pulled down in part and built up again some
six or seven times. One time it was struck by lightning. It had a
Franklin rod at one end. Old Master used to say, "If it hadn't been
for that Franklin the whole house would have gone." They was forty
years at work upon that house before Mr. Jefferson...
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