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To: Oldeconomybuyer

RE: Slaves did not build the US Capital.

How do you respond to this Smithsonian Article:

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/white-house-was-fact-built-slaves-180959916/

TITLE: The White House Was, in Fact, Built by Slaves
Along with the Capitol and other iconic buildings in Washington, D.C.


60 posted on 06/19/2019 1:26:10 PM PDT by SeekAndFind (look at Michigan, it will)
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To: SeekAndFind

“Stonemason Collen Williamson trained enslaved people on the spot at the government’s quarry at Aquia, Virginia. Enslaved people quarried and cut the rough stone that was later dressed and laid by Scottish masons to erect the walls of the President’s House. The slaves joined a work force that included local white laborers and artisans from Maryland and Virginia, as well as immigrants from Ireland, Scotland, and other European nations.”

https://www.whitehousehistory.org/questions/did-slaves-build-the-white-house


66 posted on 06/19/2019 2:55:53 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
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