D.C.,’s historic Decatur House whose brother Charles was enslaved as a house servant at nearby Arlington House Plantation. Charles Syphax previously was enslaved at Mount Vernon by Martha Washington, ...

“The National Park Service has done a spectacular job refurbishing Arlington House and telling the stories of the enslaved people who built the plantation house and worked there,” Rubenstein s ...

Lee's wife, Mary Custis Lee, at Arlington House. To show how deep the roots are here — Mrs. Lee inherited the plantation home, surrounding land, and the enslaved African Americans working there ...

The White House on Friday denounced conservative ... was a descendent of slaves who worked on the Arlington plantation before it was made into a cemetery. Among those buried at Arlington through ...

They went to Kingsley Plantation, then to Arlington, stopping at the Sammis house before heading to what used to be known as the Sammis Cemetery. John Sammis, a white New York shipbuilder ...

After being on divergent trajectories for multiple generations, the living descendants of those who lived or were enslaved at Arlington House Plantation are coming together to take action to make ...

A symbol of the southern plantation economy designed to ensure ... The Custis-Lee mansion, also known as Arlington House, the Robert E. Lee Memorial, was a sore point even during the Civil War.

Robert E. Lee will gather with descendants of enslaved persons at the place where they once lived: Lee’s former plantation home, Arlington House. The reunion, supported by the National Park ...

Known as the Arlington House logo, the image features the plantation home of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee. In a letter to local news site, ArlNow, the Arlington NAACP called the logo “divisive and ...

From George Washington to Robert E. Lee, Arlington's history is as complicated as our own. Here's how it became the hallowed ...

“The National Park Service has done a spectacular job refurbishing Arlington House and telling the stories of the enslaved people who built the plantation house and worked there,” Rubenstein s ...