LEARNING VIRGINIA

Thomas Jefferson, Martha Jefferson Randolph,
Isaac Bee, and Elizabeth Van Lew

WHAT WAS THE PURPOSE OF AN EDUCATION IN VIRGINIA?

The Big Question ...

 as THEY WALKED THE FIELD ...

JEFFERSON COULD PICTURE IT

JOSEPH C. CABELL

• Jefferson's man
  in Richmond

[Stern and inflexible]

Stern and inflexible

EDMUND BACON

• Jefferson's man
  at Monticello

[Look at that face!]

Look at that face!

IT WAS ALL ABOUT DESIGN

DESIGN

THORNTON & LATROBE

&

[Not the Best of Friends]

Not the Best of Friends

THE PANTHEON COMES TO VIRGINIA

PANTHEON

LATROBE

LOGO

S

IT'S THERE IF YOU LOOK FOR IT

IF

EMMET

TUCKER

KEY

BONNYCASTLE

DUNGLISON

BO

LE

GROUNDS

PARIS, 1784

ABBAYE ROYALE DE PANTHEMONT

ROYALE

Photo by Catherine Kerrison

CATHOLIC ...

GRANDEUR

AND ... NUNS!

U

PHILADELPHIA, 1782

• from 8. to 10 o'clock practice music

• from 10. to 1. dance one day and draw another.

• from 1. to 2. draw on the day you dance, and write a letter the next day.

• from 3. to 4. exercise yourself in music.

• from 5. till bedtime read English, write &c.

TJ to MJ, November 28, 1783

PRACTICE MUSIC

DANCE

DRAW

EXERCISE YOURSELF IN MUSIC

READ ENGLISH

WRITE

DRAW

DANCE

the chance that in marriage she will draw a blockhead i calculate at about fourteen to one ...

TJ to Marbois, December 5, 1783

blockhead

The acquirements which i hope you will make under the tutors i have provided for you will render you more worthy of my love ...

TJ to MJ, November 28, 1783

Nature Display'd; Being Discourses on the Particulars of Natural History

HERCULES

VIRGINIA GAZETTE, September 8, 1774, page 3

VIRGINIA GAZETTE

Meet

ISAAC BEE,

about whom

we know ...

ISAAC BEE

NOTHING

VERY LITTLE

• Mulatto
• Free father
• Short

• 18 to 19 years old
• Blair / Burwell
• Able to read

Mulatto

Free father

Blair / Burwell

Able to read

Short

18 to 19 years old

... thinks he has a Right
to his Freedom

Digges House

546 Prince George St.
Williamsburg

THE ASSOCIATES
OF DR. BRAY

the ass

of dr.

WRITING

Reading

SLAVE PASS,
AUNT JEMIMA JOHNSTON

JOHNSTON

SLAVE PASS

THE VAN LEW MANSION

2375 E. Grace ST., Richmond

HILARY BAKER

VAN LEW'S GRANDFATHER

HILARY BAKER

SENT TO PHILADELPHIA FOR HER EDUCATION

PHILADELPHIA

RICHMOND, 1830s

Miss

VAN LEW

&

MARY JANE

CONFEDERATE WHITE HOUSE

WHAT WAS THE PURPOSE OF AN EDUCATION IN VIRGINIA?

The Big Question ...