 What were the objects or the the text or you know what what part did you stop and go? whoa Well, there are two parts one obviously his house is so built on that hill It's almost like on a mountain come here with his farmland. I thought that's interesting management wise He's got kind of like a little town near his house and yet he's got these dispersed Houses throughout like the farmlands and then I started thinking did he give his slaves who lived in those farmhouses some What of an autonomy as they were farming those areas because his house was miles away, you know on top so Mulberry row I think is very important so 1300 foot space on the northeastern side of the the house if this is Monticello here and this is The north here and this is the east here is here is Mulberry row Somewhere around 20 homes is what it had on it domestic spaces as well as There was a nailery. There was blacksmith shop. There was a textile Shop there were domestic houses Dairy you you either work as a domestic You either worked as a tradesman or craftsman or you worked in the fields Generally, those were the three areas Mulberry row became a real proving ground to determine Which one of those might be your fate Mulberry row? Between 12 and 16 Jefferson would engage them in work males and females at Mulberry row And he would use that to make some determination about Where the aptitudes were and where he would then assign those who he had working there and then he Bought a variety of people from around the country and even outside of the country Scottish tradesmen and craftsmen to teach the enslaved at Monticello a variety of the skills. So a variety of those were sort of Determined based on the experience at Mulberry row. And then how is the other way that you encountered? You know enslaved people at Monticello through the lineage. Okay, who's I mean That second part of the exhibit more the six families that struck me is another choice You know, how what are we gonna do and instead of trying to cover all 600 they made this choice about we'll pick six One well-known and maybe some that are less well-known But we'll really focus on that, you know just on those families experiences now these families George Granger is the only man I know that was actually assigned to be an overseer at Jefferson during Jefferson lifetime He must have had over 30 overseers on the property Granger was the only one that That he had that was from the black community and Granger was one of those we use at least to suggest that Jefferson wasn't someone who was so struck by color until he didn't Understand that it was merit that was the most important in terms of whom he allowed to do work and whom he allowed Freedoms and whom he did not allow freedoms But there is an argument to be made for the precedent of the Hemings family There were five generations of that family on the hill over 70 people in that family on the mountain started with Elizabeth Hemings who Was the matriarch of the family and five generations of her family were at Monticello the Hemings were Treated differently. They were given freedoms. No one else was given Several of them were even allowed to not only work but to live off the mountain and also to sort of move around as free people even though They were owned by Jefferson You will find the Hemings were the ones who did either the least work or worked as domestics or Received privileges that others did not receive and then finally for me the faucet family and they were also Hemings, but They were the grandson Joseph faucet was the grandson of Elizabeth Joseph the reason I wanted to mention him is because When Joseph was the only member of his family that was freed in Jefferson's will He set faucet free but faucet was not free at the time that the auction took place So he could not bid on his family. He watched his family being sold away But he also knew some folk in Albemarle County that he had done business with so he made Requests of them that they purchased members of his family and that as a blacksmith He was able to to work and and he promised that he would You know, whatever it was that they Paid for the price for them that he would then pay them back the price of of the office family Somewhere in 1837 he purchased Five of his children and four of his grandchildren and they all moved back to them all moved to Ohio There were like these really nice pots like from France Help paint the complex picture Right Yeah, I thought that I enjoy it learning about the families It's interesting to see the different dynamic that that plantation would have had a lot of others But I thought to it kind of focused on the fact that these were his most skilled slaves They have the chair that the one person I know we had a trained French chef That's not normal You get to know those those six families really well, but at the same time you you lose sight of all these people And that's a that's a trade-off Do you want them to learn a couple of people's experience really deeply or do you want them to get a bigger sense of You know the whole the whole enormity of the operation