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Transcript: Thomas Jefferson
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- NPR Weekend Edition - Saturday
- Article date:
- July 4, 1998
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SCOTT SIMON, HOST: This is WEEKEND EDITION. I'm Scott Simon. SOUNDBITE
OF BIRDS CHIRPING On the lovely, leafy expanse of grounds of Thomas
Jefferson's Monticello, just a few steps down from the gift shop which
sells bookmarks imprinted with his words, "I have sworn upon the altar
of God eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind,
" tourists can see the outlines of Mr. Jefferson's sponsorship of
the most conspicuous form of tyranny, slavery. SOUNDBITE OF VISITORS
FEMALE GUIDE: This stone building was the weaving, actually, the
weavers' cottage. The women who were enslaved, who were in there
working at looms and spinning wheels and most ...