Slavery and Freedom in the White House Collection
For many visitors, walking through the White House almost feels like traveling back in time. Although the White House Collection...
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For many visitors, walking through the White House almost feels like traveling back in time. Although the White House Collection...
Materials used in Early American decorative arts were part of the commercial web of the Atlantic World—a term broadly us...
Enslaved labor was not limited to plantations. Painters, cabinetmakers, blacksmiths, sculptors, and craftsmen in the early United States relied on...
Slavery was ingrained into Washington, D.C. society from its inception. Set between two slave states—Virginia and Maryland—enslaved peop...
The nineteenth century brought with it the end of the Transatlantic Slave Trade, precipitated in part by rising abolitionist sentiment....
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