The latest gift — $10 million to Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello plantation, near Charlottesville, Va. — was announced Friday night at a dinner there.

Parker and her mom decide to go back to the plantation where their ancestors were enslaved, because despite the circumstances of slavery, this is where their family began.

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'No more Nottoway': Historic Louisiana plantation house destroyed in massive fire Nottoway Resort, the state's largest antebellum mansion, was 166 years old.

Archaeologists have excavated an area of Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello mansion and uncovered the slave quarters of Sally Hemings.