#slave memorial

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Exhibits at Mt Vernon include a reconstructed slave cabin, and a memorial to slaves and a slave cemetery. Glad that this side of Washington was not whitewashed.

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Approximately 40K People In South Carolina Demand The Removal Of Slave Memorial Because It Shames Whites

Approximately 40K People In South Carolina Demand The Removal Of Slave Memorial Because It Shames Whites

Nearly 40,000 people have signed onto a petition to remove the African-American Monument from the South Carolina statehouse grounds after a Confederate flag was taken down.

The flag was moved in 2000 from the statehouse dome to a Confederate Soldier’s Monument nearby, and a monument to the state’s black history was built the following yearas part of the legislative agreement over the tribute to…

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The Slave Memorial at Mount Vernon.

Designed by Howard University architectural students, the Slave Memorial at Mount Vernon was built on the old cemetery for slaves that worked at Mount Vernon in the 18th and 19th centuries. The memorial opened on September 21, 1983.

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"Rodney Leon, a Manhattan-based architect of Haitian descent was today announced as the winner of an international competition to design a memorial that will be permanently on display at United Nations Headquarters in New York. All designs aimed to honour the more than 15 million men, women and children who were victimized in the transatlantic slave trade for over 400 years, and created the largest forced migration in history."