The City of Philadelphia is suing the Interior Department, Interior Secretary Doug Burgum, the National Park Service, and its acting director, Jessica Bowron, after a slavery exhibit was removed from the President’s House Site in Independence National Historical Park.
The location is the former executive mansion of Founding Father George Washington, who lived there with nine African slaves from 1790 to 1797, before his successor, John Adams, occupied it for three years, ending in 1800, at which point he moved into the newly constructed White House.
