“Tell that story, baby,” my great-aunt told me, “That great American story. Sock it to ‘em, kid.”
Welcome! I am Andrew M. Davenport, Director of African American History & The Getting Word Project at the Thomas Jefferson Foundation (Monticello). I am also a doctoral candidate in U.S. History at Georgetown University.
Read my writings, watch some of my talks, and please feel free to contact me. I’d love to hear from you.
Research Interests:
American Literature and Art History
Descendant Communities and Family History
Legacies of Slavery
Oral History
Public History
Slavery and Emancipation
Note: The quilt featured in the “footer” is “A Joint Effort” by Cynthia Pettway and Mary Ann Pettway, March 2018, and purchased from the Gee’s Bend Quilting Collective in Boykin, Alabama, in June 2018. The quilts featured in the background on the website are late 19th-century quilts made in Richmond, Virginia, by Alice K. Ford (1857-1942),.