Biography of isaac jefferson the slaves

          (a son Archy died in early childhood before Isaac was born)..

          Isaac Jefferson

          Man enslaved by Thomas Jefferson (–)

          Isaac Jefferson, also likely known as Isaac Granger (c.

          Isaac Granger Jefferson was an enslaved blacksmith who left a fascinating recollection about life at Monticello for the free and enslaved.

        1. Isaac Granger Jefferson was an enslaved blacksmith who left a fascinating recollection about life at Monticello for the free and enslaved.
        2. Also known as Isaac Granger, Jefferson was a former slave of Thomas Jefferson, and recollections promise “a full and faithful account of Monticello and the.
        3. (a son Archy died in early childhood before Isaac was born).
        4. Isaac Jefferson: Memoirs of a Monticello Slave.
        5. The Jefferson slaves were then brought back to Monticello and Isaac, now six, was returned to his life as a slave.

          6. – )[1] was an enslavedartisan of US PresidentThomas Jefferson who crafted and repaired products as a tinsmith, blacksmith, and nailer at Monticello.[2]

          Although Thomas Jefferson gave Isaac and his family to his daughter Maria and her husband John Wayles Eppes in as a wedding gift, Isaac Jefferson/Granger appeared to gain his freedom by according to his memoir.

          In the census, he was recorded as Isaac Granger, a free man working in Petersburg, Virginia. Rev. Charles Campbell interviewed him there and published his memoir under the name of Isaac Jefferson in a year after Isaac's death.

          Granger/Jefferson describes Thomas Jefferson as a master and his part in the lives of his slaves.

          Early life

          Born into slavery in , Isaac was the fourth son of Ursula Granger and Great George (a son Archy died in early childhood before Isaac was born).

          His fathe