Historians are searching for stories of enslaved people who built the White House
WHYY By Elliot WilliamsJuly 4, 2021 The WHHA commissioned this 2007 painting, "A Vision Takes Form" by Peter Waddell, to illustrate 18th-century construction of the White House as it may have appeared in 1796. The association is looking to find more information about the enslaved laborers who built the mansion. (Photo courtesy of the White House Historical Association) It was a sentence that went viral, spoken by then-First Lady Michelle Obama and quickly shared across the internet, as many political sound bites have done before. But this one was shadowed by a deep history of pain that few ha...
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