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<jcm7a@cms.mail.virginia.edu> Can it be (I saved this until I had read through the string of very helpful and interest responses on this query) that no one mentions Monticello - which has a long-running, extensively funded, extremely professional, very sophisticated, and highly regarded "plantation community" program? Dianne Swann-Wright and Cinder Stanton have been publishing on the enslaved among the "plantation community", and their Hemings and Woodson descendants. Frazier Niemann and associates have the most extensive archaeological recovery program along these lines that I know. The publicity about Mr. Jefferson as slaveholder and consort of Ms. Hemings has been more than extensive. The Monticello team has responded with dignity, sensitivity, and responsibility. Start with the website <www.monticello.org> ... And similar efforts are now under way, of course, at Mount Vernon. Publications are starting to appear. The change at both institutions is a marvel to behold, and would be a delightful challenge to tell. JOE MILLER Joseph C. Miller <T. Cary Johnson, Jr. Professor> Department of History -- Randall Hall University of Virginia Charlottesville VA 22904-4180
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