two months later she married thomas randolph. after her glory years in paris martha tried to make the most of the isolation as a virginia planter's wife. over the course of 28 years she bore 11 surviving children. at jefferson's retirement in 1999 she moved back to monticello to live with him and devoted herself to his comfort. she identified with his intellectual life with the pursuit of the life of the mind and she devoted herself to educating her children and particularly her daughters to do the same. so how might education be re-envisioned in the early republic particularly when one has enjoyed the advantage is of the best all-female academy in paris and when one is the daughter of one of the chief architects of the american republic. but started to be the challenge was to architecture that monticello suggests. this photo i'm sure many of you have seen. this is taken from jefferson's library looking through another round and then into his cabinet into a his study. jefferson became very enamored of the idea of a -- when he was

away before she could be swept up by a young french aristocrat she was married to a third cousin thomas randolph. after her years in paris martha tried to make the most of the isolation of life as a virginia planter's wife over the course of 28 years, and jefferson's retirement in 1899, she moved back to monticello to live with him and devoting herself to discomfort, she identified with his intellectual life, with the pursuit of the life of the mind and devoted herself to educating her children and particularly her daughter to do the same. so how might it be in the early republic particularly the advantages of the academy of paris or france and when one is the daughter of one of the chief architects of the american republic it was going to be a challenge as the very architecture suggested. so this photograph i'm sure any of you have been to monticello. this is taken from jefferson's library looking through another room and then into his cabinet study jefferson became very enamored when he was in europe. so, compared this apartment devoted to the mind of monticello. but this room it isn't quite 1

and as far as her randolph cousins were concerned, harriet hemings was a trespasser too. properly barred from the privilege of their common descent from thomas jefferson of which, of course, the randolphs were so very proud. trespass remains a sore point between recognized jefferson descendants who claim the right of burial in the monticello graveyard and any hemings descendants who seek access to that graveyard. in 2002 the monticello association roundly voted town a proposal to admit hemings' descendants to the graveyard. a dozen years later when jefferson descendant tess taylor -- a white woman -- arranged to meet slave descendant gerald white at monticello, they walked to the graveyard together. i i unlocked the gate, taylor recounted simply. apparently unconscious of the fullness of that moment. sitting atop two centuries of family history, the white person in possession of the key while the other remains locked out. but what with we need to see -- what we need to see and that i hope my book shows is that the legal and social barriers that have separated us by race and gender are as much the work of human hands as the fence that surroun