Getting Word is the African American history department at Monticello, Thomas Jefferson’s plantation home. Founded in 1993, Getting Word records and preserves the family histories of the over 610 people enslaved by Jefferson throughout his lifetime.
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Q&A: Filmmaker Lorenzo Dickerson Joins Getting Word as Digital and Oral Historian
Getting Word Identifies Six More Members of Monticello’s Enslaved Community
Pine Grove Oral History Workshop
