George Washington’s career as an enslaver does not yet loom large in American public memory.  More than a million visitors—including hundreds of thousands of school children—now swarm the beautifully curated grounds of his plantation home Mount Vernon every year, framing evocative images of the “father of his country” at every turn.  In marked contrast, the hundreds of enslaved people who made the place work are conspicuously absent, spectral images in a nostalgic haze. But this is beginning to change, thanks to the hard work of the League of Descendants of Slavery, the commitment of the Mount Vernon Ladies Association (MVLA), Read more