Jefferson at Monticello: Memoirs of a Monticello Slave and Jefferson at Monticello

by Hamilton W. Pierson and Charles Campbell

Book Overview

Covering the years from 1781 into the 1820s, these valuable accounts remain the chief source of information about Thomas Jefferson's domestic and personal life, interests, habits, appearance, and day-to-day activities at Monticello.

Isaac Jefferson and Edmund Bacon were each sixty-five years old when their recollections were recorded. What they remember best, of course, are scenes from the past made vivid and immediate by details involving...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813900220
• ISBN13: 9780813900223
• Release Date: May 1967
• Publisher: University of Virginia Press
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.56 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.4" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

Jefferson the Man

Great book about Jefferson the Virginia planter, not the politician. Great insight into life at Monticello.

Essential Jefferson Scholarship

Let's hope that 21st c. scholars are including Madison Hemings' memoirs alongside those of Isaac Jefferson and Capt. Bacon.