USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The Monticello plantation was both an agricultural farm, where wheat, tobacco and other crops were grown, and a site of “cottage” industries, including a textile factory, a blacksmith shop, nailmaking and barrelmaking operations, and water-powered mills.

Detailed explanation-2: -Hemings was then 14 years old but, tellingly, Abigail Adams thought she was 15 or 16. Writing Jefferson that the two had arrived, Abigail Adams took them under her wing until an emissary showed up two weeks later to convey them to Paris, where Jefferson almost certainly began having sex with Hemings.

Detailed explanation-3: -Located just outside Charlottesville, Virginia, in the Piedmont region, the plantation was originally 5, 000 acres and built using slave labor. This was the primary plantation of Thomas Jefferson, the third president of the United States.

Detailed explanation-4: -Thomas Jefferson enslaved over 600 human beings throughout the course of his life. 400 people were enslaved at Monticello; the other 200 people were held in bondage on Jefferson’s other properties.