Trump team removes slavery display from George Washington’s Philadelphia home
- The Trump administration has removed a slavery exhibit at the home of former president George Washington in Philadelphia, replacing it with another version that historians have complained whitewashes the subject.
- Now known as the President’s House, the property was home to the Founding Father and his wife Martha from 1790 to 1797 and was also occupied by his successor John Adams for another three years before the construction of the White House in Washington, D.
- The Washingtons lived there with nine African slaves who had been sent up from the first president’s plantation home in Mount Vernon,
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- The Trump administration has removed a slavery exhibit at the home of former president George Washington in Philadelphia, replacing it with another version that historians have complained whitewashes the subject.
- Now known as the President’s House, the property was home to the Founding Father and his wife Martha from 1790 to 1797 and was also occupied by his successor John Adams for another three years before the construction of the White House in Washington, D.
- The Washingtons lived there with nine African slaves who had been sent up from the first president’s plantation home in Mount Vernon,
Sources: The Independent