Jeffrey Brown:
Monticello, built between 1768 and 1808 in Charlottesville, Virginia, was home to Jefferson, third president of the United States, writer of the Declaration of Independence, enlightenment thinker, and slave owner of more than 600 people.
Visitors have long come here to see and admire his mansion and its many wonders. The first tour to focus on the enslaved people here only began in 1993.
But over the last several decades, Monticello has slowly expanded the story beyond Jefferson, through research and archaeological work, to include the vast majority of those who lived and worked here.
At a site about a half-mile from the main house, students in a summer program dug trenches, sifted dirt, and found ceramics, nails, and other artifacts of slave life.
Fraser Neiman is Monticello's Director of archaeology.
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