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Isaac Jefferson, also likely known as Isaac Granger (1775 – 1846) was an enslaved artisan of US President Thomas Jefferson who crafted and repaired products as a tinsmith, blacksmith, and nailer at Monticello.
Isaac Granger Jefferson (1775-ca. 1850) was an enslaved tinsmith and blacksmith at Monticello. Granger's brief memoir, written down by an interviewer in the 1840s, provides important, fascinating information about Monticello, the free and enslaved community who lived there, and the major historical events that he witnessed. [1]
Isaac Granger, who adopted the surname Jefferson toward the end of his life, was known in Petersburg for his stories of life at Monticello. His vivid recollections were taken down by Charles Campbell in the 1840s, but not published until 1951, along with a striking daguerreotype of the blacksmith.
29 de jun. de 2008 · Isaac Jefferson, a slave of the third President of the United States, was born in December 1775 in Monticello, on the Thomas Jefferson plantation in Virginia. His family was an important part of the Monticello labor force. His father, Great George, was the only enslaved person on the Jefferson plantation to rise from foreman to overseer.
The Memoirs of Isaac Jefferson begin, “Life of Isaac Jefferson of Petersburg, Virginia, Blacksmith, containing a full and faithful account of Monticello and the family there, with notices of the many distinguished characters that visited there, with his Revolutionary experience and travels, adventures, observations and opinions, the whole ...
Article. Isaac Jefferson, an enslaved blacksmith. 1775 - about 1850. Overview. Isaac Jefferson was born at Monticello in 1775. His parents were slaves owned by Thomas Jefferson. When he was about fifteen, Thomas Jefferson took Isaac to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. There Isaac learned how to be a tinsmith.
Isaac Granger Jefferson, an Enslaved Blacksmith | Monticello. Slavery. Landscape of Slavery: Mulberry Row at Monticello. Meet People. Isaac Granger Jefferson. 1775–1846, an Enslaved Nailer, Tinsmith, and Blacksmith. Isaac Granger Jefferson, courtesy Special Collections, University of Virginia Library.
