American Artifacts
James Madison's Slaves
2012-03-11T18:58:26-04:00https://ximage.c-spanvideo.org/eyJidWNrZXQiOiJwaWN0dXJlcy5jLXNwYW52aWRlby5vcmciLCJrZXkiOiJGaWxlc1wvM2NjXC8zMDQ3NjUtbS5qcGciLCJlZGl0cyI6eyJyZXNpemUiOnsiZml0IjoiY292ZXIiLCJoZWlnaHQiOjUwNn19fQ==James Madison, the fourth president of the United States, owned about a hundred slaves at Montpelier, his forty-six-hundred-acre estate in Orange County, Virginia, 90 miles south of the nation’s capital.
Matthew Reeves gave a tour of an archaeological project investigating the slave quarters at James Madison’s Montpelier. The three year archaeology project was jointly funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Montpelier Foundation.
James Madison, the fourth president of the United States, owned about a hundred slaves at Montpelier, his forty-six-hundred-acre estate in O…
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James Madison, the fourth president of the United States, owned about a hundred slaves at Montpelier, his forty-six-hundred-acre estate in Orange County, Virginia, 90 miles south of the nation’s capital.
Matthew Reeves gave a tour of an archaeological project investigating the slave quarters at James Madison’s Montpelier. The three year archaeology project was jointly funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Montpelier Foundation. close
Matthew Reeves gave a tour of an archaeological project investigating the slave quarters at James Madison’s Montpelier. The three year archaeology project was jointly funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Montpelier Foundation.
James Madison, the fourth president of the United States, owned about a hundred slaves at Montpelier, his forty-six-hundred-acre estate in O… read more
James Madison, the fourth president of the United States, owned about a hundred slaves at Montpelier, his forty-six-hundred-acre estate in Orange County, Virginia, 90 miles south of the nation’s capital.
Matthew Reeves gave a tour of an archaeological project investigating the slave quarters at James Madison’s Montpelier. The three year archaeology project was jointly funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Montpelier Foundation. close
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