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You Never Know - A Memoir
Date added:
Mar 11, 2024
You Never Know - A Memoir

 
Coming Home
Date added:
Mar 11, 2024
Coming Home

 
"The only unavoidable subject of regret" - George Washington, slavery, and the enslaved community at Mount Vernon

"American historians began producing in-depth studies of slavery and slave life shortly after World War II, but it was not until the early 1980s that the country's museums took the first tentative steps to interpret those same controversial topics. Perhaps because of the tremendous amount of primary material related to George Washington, almost no one looked into the lives of Mount Vernon's enslaved population. Incorporating the results of detailed digging, of both the archaeological and archiva

 
 

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