Washington Remembered, Washington Forgotten: Washington and Slavery

To mark the 250th anniversaries of the American Revolution and the founding of the United States, a coalition of local non-profits and government agencies are presenting Washington in American Memory, a seven-part speaker series.

On March 28, explore how Americans have remembered and forgotten Washington’s involvement with slavery over the past 250 years.

This talk features Kelli Racine Barnes, Mellon Humanities Postdoctoral Fellow at Independence National Historical Park, John Garrison Marks, author of Thy Will Be Done: George Washington’s Legacy of Slavery and the Fight for American Memory (forthcoming) and Vice President of Research and Engagement at the American Association for State and Local History and Kyera Singleton, Executive Director of the Royall House & Slave Quarters and Postdoctoral Fellow at the Tufts University Center for the Humanities