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Posted on 01/23/2026 6:55:14 AM PST by MAGA2017
The National Park Service began removing a slavery memorial at the President’s House in Philadelphia on Thursday afternoon -- an exhibit that opened in 2010 and honored the lives of the nine people held there who were enslaved by President George Washington.
ABC News Philadelphia station WPVI captured video on Thursday afternoon of NPS staffers taking down boards and panels that told the stories of Austin, Christopher Sheels, Giles, Hercules, Joe Richardson, Moll, Oney Judge, Paris and Richmond.
Michael Coard, a Philadelphia attorney who founded an advocacy group that fought for a slavery memorial at the President’s House for decades, told ABC News that his group, Avenging The Ancestors Coalition, is planning to announce “powerful action shortly” in response to the removal.
The removal of those exhibits was feared and anticipated by advocates like Coard for months after President Donald Trump and Interior Secretary Doug Burgum ordered “disparaging” materials to be removed from Independence Hall ahead of America’s 250th birthday -- a directive that was included in Trump’s March 27, 2025, executive order, “Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History” executive order.
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How about a memorial for all the white people murdererd by black people who were let back on the street despite having a record 9 miles long.
Excellent but I’m still waiting for all the base names Biden changed in the South honoring Confederates done as an act of reconciliation between both sides to be restored.
“...people held there who were enslaved by President George Washington.”
I would like to see every monument the left ripped down during the Biden era restored - and anyone who tries to take them down again, prosecuted the same way the J-6ers were prosecuted.
Those slaves were part of his wife’s property when he married her. They were supposed to pass to his stepchildren, but this never happened for reasons that I forget. He eventually the slaves in his will.
It’s the current jargon.
I recall during my visit to Mount Vernon a few years ago learning about how Washington eventually wanted to free his slaves and also have them learn skilled trades (a lot like Jefferson).
The US became a nation with the signing of the Constitution in 1789. The importation of slaves was abolished by law 1808.
Washington freed one of his slaves at his death in 1799.
Between the signing of the Constitution and the end of the Civil War, political battles were waged to free slaves.
So, slavery existed in the US from 1789 to 1865, a total of 76 years. Yet all the bad parties, who imported slaves to the North American are held blameless, yet the founding fathers who worked through the political system to eventually end slavery are condemned. Yet slavery continued elsewhere in the world, and in fact still exists today in Muslim nations.
There’s slavery going on today in the USA, thanks to previously wide-open borders. It’s called human trafficking these days.
The slaves that he left retirement funds to - those slaves?
They were dower slaves that belonged to Martha’s first husband, so he couldn’t legally free them as they would be inherited by Marth’s children. Marth freed almost all the remaining slaves one year after Washington’s death.
Wasn’t there some law that if you freed them you had to finance their passage back to Africa, and to a lot of slave owners that was unaffordable? Or am I confused?
Yes you never hear them talk about all the black slave owners some were very big dealers.
The whole purpose of reminding people, especially school children and college students, of the dark side of American history, is to demoralize them and to recruit them for communist causes. The 1619 Project is an example of this subversion. Thankfully, the second Trump Administration is taking action to end this denigration of our country.
George Washington had his own slaves before Martha married him. When he died his slaves were freed but not hers.
Martha’s slaves passed down to her grandson George Washington Parke Custis, who ordered them freed upon his own death in 1857. That was carried out by his son in law Robert E Lee.
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“ So, slavery existed in the US from 1789 to 1865, a total of 76 years. Yet all the bad parties, who imported slaves to the North American are held blameless, yet the founding fathers who worked through the political system to eventually end slavery are condemned. Yet slavery continued elsewhere in the world, and in fact still exists today in Muslim nations.”
And this is exactly why I don’t entertain these discussions. It boils down to repeating the same crap again and again. Some people are just happy being mad at someone else. Why indulge them?
Nicely done, a short description that should be known by all Americans and the world.
I’m with you.
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