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Laura Klein exposed me to a new view on social networks through her tracking of the relationships and interactions that occurred in Thomas Jefferson’s household. The main example she uses to jump start the paper is one of Thomas Jefferson’s slaves and personal chef: James Hemings. It is easier to track the relationships between Jefferson and other politicians or social elites due to documentation of events and access to education. However, one must also consider that there was networking happening in the lower classes as well. Through documents passed between Hemings and other slaves/workers, valuable relational data has been found and added as metadata to a variety of documents. Klein stressed that looking at the top level and creating a clear diagram of relationships is possible, but not necessarily true to history. Accounting for all interactions (especially those of slaves) reveals that the Jefferson household was a complex network, helping reveal the true nature of many people’s lives, including who they relied on and/or trusted the most.