Memoirs of a Monticello Slave by Isaac Jefferson

Author:Isaac Jefferson [Jefferson, Isaac]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Social Science, Slavery
ISBN: 9781450525848
Google: k49gSQAACAAJ
Publisher: Createspace Independent Pub
Published: 2010-01-23T03:03:46+00:00

CHAPTER 8

Mr. Jefferson was a tall strait-bodied man as ever you see, right square shouldered: nary man in this town walked so straight as my old master: neat a built man as ever was seen in Vaginny, I reckon or any place—a straight-up man{11}: long face, high nose.

Jefferson Randolph (Mr. Jefferson’s grandson) nothing like him, except in height—tall, like him: not built like him: old master was a Straight-up man. Jefferson Randolph pretty much like his mother. Old master wore Vaginny cloth & a red waistcoat, (all the gentlemen wore red waistcoats in dem days) & small clothes: arter dat he used to wear red breeches too.{12} Governor Page used to come up there to Monticello, wife & daughter wid him: drove four-in-hand: servants John, Molly & a postilion. Patrick Henry visited old master: coach & two; his face for all the world like the images of Bonaparte: would stay a week or more. Mann Page used to beat Monticello—a plain mild-looking man: his wife & daughter along with him. Dr. Thomas Walker lived about ten miles from Monticello—a thin-faced man. John Walker{13} (of Belvoir), his brother, owned a great many black people.

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