Biography of isaac jefferson the slavery

Man enslaved by Thomas Jefferson (1775–1846)

Isaac Jefferson, also likely known as Isaac Granger (c. 1775 – 1846)^[1] was an enslavedartisan of US PresidentThomas 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.

Early life

Born into slavery in 1775, Isaac was the fourth son of Ursula Granger and Great George (a son Archy died in early ch