About Us
The Monticello Community pursues a fully inclusive realization of Thomas Jefferson’s aspirations for equality among all people and the equitable opportunity to pursue life, liberty and happiness. We envision a time when everyone with a connection to Monticello’s original community will feel equally welcome, will be inspired by their historic legacy, and will have a deeper and more nuanced perspective on that community and its members. The Monticello Community will serve as a model of how descendants of a southern U.S. plantation community can find healing and reconciliation for the legacies of enslavement, discrimination, and socio-economic inequity.
To promote and sustain the social and intellectual connections among the descendants of the community of people associated with the historic Monticello plantation, formerly owned by Thomas Jefferson, as well as other individuals with links to Monticello based on oral history, scholarship, preservation, literature, and other interests.
- Opportunities for the younger generation of community descendants to explore the meaning and impact of their Monticello heritage.
- Forums in which members of the community can share historical, genealogical and general information with each other.
- Gatherings of members of the community on regional and national levels, focusing on the interests of the group in history, genealogy, social connection, and issues of multi-generational interracial families and communities
To develop ways for this particular highly visible historic community to explore and share with other families and communities insights and approaches to finding reconciliation across racial lines.
The Monticello Community has been granted a 501(c)7 exemption by the Internal Revenue Service. All contributions are tax deductible.