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Washington’s Home Rewritten | US News
The Trump administration quietly replaced a powerful 2010 exhibit at George Washington’s Philadelphia home—where the Declaration of Independence was signed—with a sanitized version, sparking outrage. The original display highlighted the lives of nine enslaved people who lived with the Washingtons; the new panels, while claiming to include “historical context,” omit key details like slave trade maps and blunt headlines about slavery’s brutality. Critics—including Philadelphia Mayor Cherelle Parker—call the move “shameful” and a betrayal of public trust, even though a court ruling backed the…
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