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Visitors have also taken to the internet to express their dismay, with one Google review from Wesley Stevens, of Tulsa, Oklahoma, writing 'They are trying to rewrite history to make it seem like the founding fathers were terrible immoral creatures that happened to start a country.' The man's 'hands and face of featureless tar' are meant to represent 'the faceless lives of all who served in bondage, witnessing but never recognized,' the painting's placard reads.

'Is 'all men are created equal' being lived up to in our country today?' a sign hung on the patio outside the snack shops reads, 'When will we know when it is?'Īnd the centerpiece of the house - the octagonal music room that was meticulously restored to look as Jefferson's exact decorative specifications - a portrait of a black man with his face marred out hangs front and center.

Throughout the building, signs pointing out household positions continually refer to them with the moniker 'enslaved' before them, according to The Post, while trigger warnings abound and signage asks questions that provide their own answers. The current tour of Monticello begins with a reference to the Native Americans who once lived on the land, and a ticket booth adorned with a painting of the president's slaves in tears. Some visitors however have argued that the changes are not enough, with one visitor labeling the slavery exhibit specifically as 'benevolent slaveholder b.s.'īut another visitor, Debi Jansen, suggested the tour wasn't woke enough Recent visitors have described a deluge exhibits and signs that criticize Jefferson, and even employees who go out of the way to 'besmirch' him.

'The whole thing has the feel of propaganda and manipulation,' founder of the libertarian Brownstone Institute Jeffrey Tucker told The New York Post after a recent visit, 'People on my tour seemed sad and demoralized.' The reactions come after a ten-year effort to overhaul the exhibits at the Virginia estate and provide a more balanced view of the third US president who wrote: 'We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal' in 1776, yet owned slaves till his dying day in 1826. Thomas Jefferson's famous Monticello mansion has been accused of bombarding visitors with unending and over the top references to the Declaration of Independence author's history as a slave owner.