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Philadelphia’s History Rewritten | Bangor News
Philadelphia’s historic President’s House is at the center of a fiery debate over how to tell the story of slavery in America, as new panels installed under a 2025 federal directive erase key details about enslaved people who lived there with George and Martha Washington. Critics, including city officials and activists, call the changes a whitewashing effort that ignores the painful truths of American history — omitting maps of the slave trade, timelines, and blunt language about slavery’s brutality. A lower court initially sided with the city, ordering the panels removed, but a higher court…
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