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A great big thank-you to Dennis, Douglas, and Mary for the suggestions. Through some
miracle, when I came into my office this morning I found a stack of print-outs guiding
me to these sources in the Jefferson Library at Monticello (where I have an office for
the summer). Someone here reads VA-HIST.
I'm looking for this information in order to bring some context to the lives of
Jefferson's slaves. The slave David Hern, for example, was a wheelwright for Jefferson.
I'm trying to get some sense of what his life might have been like had he been a free
white man pursuing the same trade. The range of services Jefferson commanded was truly
impressive. He could, and did, turn to his slaves and say, "make a set of columns for
my house; brew up a batch of beer; make me a landau; cook a French dinner for twenty."
And Jefferson's artisans were very good at what they did.
Happy 4th !
Henry Wiencek
Charlottesville
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