My Monticello
by Jocelyn Nicole Johnson· 2021
Johnson's work details a racist attack in Charlottesville and the complex interplay between a group of the targeted, holed up in Thomas Jefferson's historic plantation home. What we saw in those moments riveted us, and then it set us free. In a time of rolling blackouts and terrible storms battering America, the neighbourhood of 1st Street, Charlottesville is attacked by violent white supremacists. Families, friends and strangers flee for their lives in an abandoned bus, taking refuge in Monticello, Thomas Jefferson's historic plantation home in the hills above town. Over nineteen days the group find ways to care for and sustain one another as the world burns beneath them. Told by Da'Naisha Love, a young Black descendant of Jefferson and Sally Hemings, My Monticello is an account of racism past and present, and a vision of resistance, hope and love.
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Johnson's work details a racist attack in Charlottesville and the complex interplay between a group of the targeted, holed up in Thomas Jefferson's historic plantation home. What we saw in those moments riveted us, and then it set us free. In a time of rolling blackouts and terrible storms battering America, the neighbourhood of 1st Street, Charlottesville is attacked by violent white supremacists. Families, friends and strangers flee for their lives in an abandoned bus, taking refuge in Monticello, Thomas Jefferson's historic plantation home in the hills above town. Over nineteen days the group find ways to care for and sustain one another as the world burns beneath them. Told by Da'Naisha Love, a young Black descendant of Jefferson and Sally Hemings, My Monticello is an account of racism past and present, and a vision of resistance, hope and love.