A new exhibit at President George Washington's estate in Mount Vernon will open to the public on Juneteenth, and it explores ...

He pursued Mount Vernon’s runaway slaves, albeit quietly, without using newspaper advertisements. By 1792-93, according to Hoth, George Washington began to mull the idea of emancipation.

The Mount Vernon Ladies' Association, which has owned and operated Mount Vernon since 1858, was slow to acknowledge the importance of slaves in the history of the estate.

The contrast is striking: On one end of George Washington's Mount Vernon estate, overlooking the Potomac River, is the iconic, stately 7,000 square-foot mansion where Washington and his family lived.

On my second trip to Mount Vernon, I got a much more convincing explanation. “This is imported grass from England, and it took the work of many slaves to keep it trimmed and to give it the ...

By using decades worth of archaeological finds, the first president's meticulous record keeping, and their descendants, curators have crafted a new exhibit that focuses on Mount Vernon's slaves.

Mount Vernon was on the very edge of that North-South line, just in slave-owning Virginia but a few miles down the Potomac River from slavery-free Washington DC.

In observance of African American History Month, Mount Vernon Estate offers a Slave Life specialty tour once a day throughout the month of February. The tour provides insight into the lives and ...

Dennis Pogue and Susan Schoelwer gave a tour of newly re-interpreted slave quarters at George Washington's Mount Vernon that show a more historically accurate and nuanced depiction of slave life ...

The following year, in May of 1784, Washington paid several unnamed "Negroes," presumably Mount Vernon slaves, 122 shillings for nine teeth, slightly less than one-third the going rate advertised ...

MOUNT VERNON, Va. (ABC7) — With the National Museum of African American History and Culture being the hottest ticket in town and attracting big crowds, visitors might want to check out another ...