Slavery Exhibit Removed
- Tassanee Vejpongsa - AP
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Visitors view the reinstalled educational panels about slavery at the site of President George Washington's home in Philadelphia, Wednesday, July 15, 2026.
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The Trump administration has replaced an exhibit on slavery at the site of President George Washington’s home in Philadelphia with a version that historians say whitewashes the nation’s history. The new exhibit was installed Wednesday morning in the same area where the Declaration of Independence was adopted on July 4, 1776. It comes as President Donald Trump has made dismantling diversity and inclusion initiatives a priority and in the midst of his aggressive campaign to overhaul some of Washington’s most sacred cultural and historic institutions. The original panels were put in place in 2010 and told the story of how nine slaves lived in the home along with George and Martha Washington in the 1790s.
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