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The Enslaved Community at Mount Vernon

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​@BobbleheadGeorge Join us as we honor the extraordinary lives of the men, women, and children who made up the enslaved community at George Washington's Mount Vernon @mountvernon

- Video Chapters -
0:03 - Introduction
0:33 - Piecing together the story of the Enslaved men, women, and children at Mount Vernon
1:35 - men's quarters
2:11 - clothing worn by the enslaved men at Mount Vernon
2:40 - archeological findings in the men's slave quarters
3:03 - restoration of the men's quarters
3:11 - women's quarters
3:32 - back-breaking work
4:12 - lives of the enslaved children
4:37 - restoration of the women's quarters
5:02 - Hercules' story
5:47 - Doll's story
6:33 - Tom's story
7:07 - Sambo Anderson's story
8:00 - log cabin slave quarters
8:24 - Daily rations
8:37 - supplementing their diet
9:29 - the Slave Memorial at Mount Vernon
9:56 - Slave burial yard at Mount Vernon
10:28 - 1929 memorial to the enslaved community
10:45 - Thank you for joining us

To experience Mount Vernon's online Lives Bound Together exhibit please go to lbt.mountvernon.org
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