President Washington's Escapee's Vs. Washington's Workers?

Philadelphia's Museum, The President's (White) House was forced to pay tribute to George Washington's Escapees, Freedom Seekers. University of Nevada Reno, Author and Professor Scott E. Casper, Ph.D., Yale University 1992 will give us a different perspective, from his book ~Sarah Johnson's Mount Vernon: The Forgotten History of an American Shrine. Professor Casper reconstructs the story of a community of African Americans who worked at George Washington's estate for the century after he died in 1799. These women, men, and children hadn’t been George and Martha Washington’s slaves. Most of them came to Mount Vernon with the Washington descendants who inherited the estate from 1802 to the 1850s. After the Civil War, some of them returned as free employees of the Mount Vernon Ladies’ Association, which purchased the historic site in 1858 and has owned and operated it ever since.

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