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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Joe Sommerlad

Trump team removes slavery display from George Washington’s Philadelphia home

The Trump administration has removed a slavery exhibit at the home of former president George Washington in Philadelphia, replacing it with another version that historians have complained whitewashes the subject.

Now known as the President’s House, the property was home to the Founding Father and his wife Martha from 1790 to 1797 and was also occupied by his successor John Adams for another three years before the construction of the White House in Washington, D.C.

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