American Architecture

Gallery of Slave Cabins

"In many ways the Mount Vernon estate was comprised of several small African-American villages, presided over by an Anglo-American ruling class. At the time of George Washington's death in 1799, African-Americans made up roughly 90% of the plantation's population, with 317 slaves and roughly twenty to thirty Anglo-Americans living on the five farms comprising Mount Vernon." [Mount Vernon.org] Read More

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