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Jefferson's favorite wine was made from the Scuppernong grape
==Jefferson's views==
==Jefferson's views==
===Culture===
Lost in Jefferson's visible stature of statesmanship, authoring the Declaration, and other accomplishments such as his presidency, are Jefferson's love of music, wine, and the arts. Jefferson's favorite wines were produced by the Scuppernong variety,<ref>[http://northcarolinahistory.org/encyclopedia/state-fruit-scuppernong-grape/ State Fruit: Scuppernong Grape]</ref><ref>[http://winetable.com/blog/grape-of-the-week-scuppernong/ Grape of the Week: Scuppernong]</ref> and is known to have grown those as well as Muscadine grapes in his vinyards at Monticello.<ref>[https://www.monticello.org/site/house-and-gardens/vineyards The Vineyards]</ref>
===Slavery===
===Slavery===
In ''Notes on the State of Virginia'' (1785) Jefferson deplored the despotic, lawless treatment of slaves, suggesting that the only remedy was to emancipate and remove Virginia's slaves and then declare them a free and independent people. Colonization to an unspecified destination was necessary because racial co-existence was impossible; emancipation otherwise would produce "convulsions which will probably never end but in the extermination of one or the other race." Differences between the two races were "fixed in nature", he said:
In ''Notes on the State of Virginia'' (1785) Jefferson deplored the despotic, lawless treatment of slaves, suggesting that the only remedy was to emancipate and remove Virginia's slaves and then declare them a free and independent people. Colonization to an unspecified destination was necessary because racial co-existence was impossible; emancipation otherwise would produce "convulsions which will probably never end but in the extermination of one or the other race." Differences between the two races were "fixed in nature", he said: