Slavery

Stone Georgian mansion built in 1753 by Scottish merchant John Carlyle; headquarters in April 1755 for General Edward Braddock's Congress of five royal governors planning the …

Brick Federal-era house and compound at 1315 Duke Street, operated from 1828 to 1836 as the headquarters of Franklin & Armfield, the largest domestic slave-trading firm in the …

Five-farm plantation on the Potomac owned by George Washington from 1761 until his death in 1799; home to Washington, his family, and more than three hundred enslaved people. …

Federal-style brick mansion built 1800–1805 by Lawrence Lewis and Nelly Custis Lewis on a 2,000-acre tract carved from the Mount Vernon estate as their wedding gift from George …