Over the course of his life, he remodeled and expanded Monticello and filled it Rosetta Stone V3 with art, fine furnishings and interesting gadgets and architectural details. He kept records of everything that happened at the 5,000-acre plantation, including daily weather reports, a gardening journal and notes about his slaves and animals.InteractivesExplore Thomas Jefferson's MonticelloOn January 1, 1772, Jefferson married Martha Wayles Skelton (1748-82), a young widow. The couple moved to Monticello and eventually had six children; only two daughters--Martha (1772-1836) and Mary (1778-1804)--survived into adulthood. In 1782, Jefferson's wife Martha died at age 33 following complications from child-birth. Jefferson was distraught and never remarried. However, it is believed he fathered more children with one of his slaves, Sally Hemmings (1773-1835).Slavery was a contradictory Rosetta Stone Spanish Latin issue in Jefferson's life. Although he was an advocate for individual liberty and at one point promoted a plan for gradual emancipation of slaves in America, he owned slaves throughout his life. Additionally, while he wrote in the Declaration of Independence that "all men are created equal," he believed African Americans were biologically inferior to whites and thought the two races could not co-exist peacefully in freedom. Jefferson inherited some 175 slaves from his father and father-in-law and owned an estimated 600 slaves over the course of his life. He freed only a small number of them in his will; the majority were sold following his death.Thomas Jefferson and the American RevolutionIn 1775, with the American Revolutionary War recently under way, Jefferson was selected as a delegate to the Second Rosetta Stone Arabic V3 Continental Congress.



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