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In a similar vein, George Washington’s Mount Vernon estate - today privately owned and operated as a living history museum - has an excellent series of exhibits which puts names and stories to the Washington family’s enslaved servants and laborers:

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/groundbreaking-exhibi...

The re-enactors are all fantastic and very knowledgeable. It’s unsettling talking to a black re-enactor who’s firmly in-character as a slave, which I suppose is the point:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=MVFdsqQby9o

parent _iyig 5 years ago

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