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Oral Histories with Descendants of the Enslaved Community

24,902 views • October 19, 2016

This video appears in the exhibit, Lives Bound Together: Slavery at George Washington's Mount Vernon (Oct 1, 2016 - July 11, 2021). The exhibit is now online: https://www.mountvernon.org/george-washington/slavery/lives-bound-together-online

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