Published: 2021, Penguin Random House Genre: Fiction Themes: White Supremacy riots, Thomas Jefferson, Monticello My rating (out of 5): ❤❤❤❤❤ Ah, Thomas Jefferson. Spokesman for democracy, American Founding Father, principle author of the Declaration of Independence and Third President of the United States. All-round good bloke right? Well, maybe not quite so all-round as he had a bit of a blind spot when it came to owning people. Mr Jefferson owned more than six hundred African American people during his adult life and they were all put to work in and around his magnificent house, Monticello. If you look up Thomas Jefferson's page on the White House website there is no mention of these people at all, and quite near the top of the text there is a quote from one of Jefferson's private letters where he states: 'I have sworn upon the alter of God eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.' No wonder Jocelyn Nicole Johnson ...