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Redefining the "Cradle of Liberty": The President's House Controversy in Independence National Historical Park
Abstract
This article examines the public controversy surrounding the National Park Service's decision about how best to recognize the site of the nation's first executive mansion—the President's House—in Philadelphia's Independence National Historical Park. The first of the house's two presidential occupants, George Washington, kept nine slaves in the mansion while circumventing a Pennsylvania law that could have given the slaves their freedom. The National Park staff's resistance to acknowledging Washington's actions led to an ongoing and lengthy public debate that eventually resulted in the decision to build an installation that recognized all of the occupants of the house. Advocates for building such a site invoked two types of vernacular discourse—a counternarrative ("Liberty has been incompletely enacted") and a representative anecdote ("Excavating buried history")—that embraced the traditions of storytelling at Independence National Historical Park.
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“A similar situation occurred in response to excavations at the President's House, in Philadelphia, where the National Park Service had to reckon with how to present the United States' first president, George Washington, in light of the clear historical and archaeological evidence that he and his family enslaved numerous people (Aden, 2010).”
From Heritage as liberation (2023) · cites this paper as Aden, 2010
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Fryer, T. C. (2023) · American Anthropologist · doi:10.1111/aman.13844 · Cited by 25
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- Authors
- Aden, R. C.
- Venue
- Rhetoric & Public Affairs
- Publisher
- Project MUSE
- Published
- 2010-06
- Volume
- 13
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 251-279
- ISSN
- 1534-5238
- Cited by
- 6
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- 0
- Language
- en
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