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Man enslaved by Thomas Jefferson (1775–1846)
Isaac Jefferson, ca. 1845
Isaac Jefferson, also likely known as Isaac Granger (1775 – 1846)[1] was an enslaved artisan of US President Thomas Jefferson who crafted and repaired products as a tinsmith, blacksmith, and nailer at Monticello.[2]
Although Thomas Jefferson gave Isaac and his family to his daughter Maria and her husband John Wayles Eppes in 1797 as a wedding gift, Isaac Jefferson/Granger appeared to gain his freedom by 1822 according to his memoir. In the 1840 census, he was recorded as Isaac Granger, a free man working in Petersburg, Virginia. Rev. Charles Campbell interviewed him there and published his memoir under the name of Isaac Jefferson in 1847 a year after Isaac's death. Granger/Jefferson describes Thomas Jefferson as a master and his part in the lives of his slaves.
^"Discoveries about the Family of Isaac Jefferson", Plantation & Slavery/ African-American Family Histories, Monticello Website, accessed 28 February 2011
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