“I can only say
that there is not a man living who wishes more sincerely than I do to see a
plan adopted for the abolition of slavery.”
~ George Washington
“21 Aug. 1805…bought
a negro woman Lucretia Jame’s wife, her 2. sons John & Randall and the
child of which she is pregnant, when born, for £180.” ~ Thomas Jefferson’s Memorandum Book
We traveled the Old Dominion from the northeast corner
at Arlington over the state line from DC to the southwest corner at Abingdon, just
a tobacco spit away from the Tennessee border.
Along our route we made house calls on some former presidents. The presidents are long since gone but their
homes, from Washington’s Mount Vernon just south of DC to Jefferson’s Monticello
on the eastern edge of the Blue Ridge, all remain in magnificent
restoration. Four of our nation’s first
five presidents hailed from Virginia, George Washington (1) Thomas Jefferson
(3) James Madison (4) and James Monroe (5) and we visited the homes of all four.
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| Reproduced Slave's Cabin at Mount Vernon |
