Slavery in the North : forgetting history and recovering memory

"In 2002, we learned that President George Washington had eight (and, later, nine) enslaved Africans in his house while he lived in Philadelphia from 1790 to 1797. The house was only one block from Independence Hall and, though torn down in 1832, it housed the enslaved men and women Washington...

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Main Author: Ross, Marc Howard, (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Philadelphia, PA : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2018]
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Call Number: E 441 .R797 2018
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