Madison And Eston Hemings
Madison and Eston both had successful careers and fathered multiple children. Some of them went on to fight for the Union in the Civil War. Their children then had their own children, and so on. Interestingly, his great-grandson Frederick Madison Roberts made history as the first elected person of black ancestry to hold a public office position on the West Coast a few generations after Jefferson’s presidency. He spent two decades in the California State Assembly.
Madison And Eston Hemings
They Collected Accounts And Anecdotes
More than 200 people were interviewed by Monticello historians in 1993 to learn more about the subject. The interviews were a crucial component of a larger oral history project. Its mission was to compile personal accounts from those who lived and worked on the Monticello plantation. The National Endowment for the Humanities and the University of Virginia held a summit at the estate in 2016. The event was attended by a few descendants of the families who once lived there. “Memory, Mourning, Mobilization: Legacies of Slavery and Freedom in America,” was the title.
They Collected Accounts And Anecdotes