Tours tell story of Monticello through voices of its slaves

(Baltimore Sun) Burwell Colbert was the only person who could understand Thomas Jefferson when the former president was on his deathbed. James Hemings and his sister, Sally, could have sued for their freedom in France when they accompanied Jefferson to Paris in the 1780s, but instead returned with the statesman. And Peter Fossett later said he didn't realize he was a slave until the day, at age 12, when he was put on the auction block. Continued

Photo: "Servant quarters of Monticello, home of Thomas Jefferson" (Library of Congress)