As the Lin-Manuel Miranda musical streams on Disney Plus this weekend, a look at how Alexander Hamilton set aside his feelings about slavery to become an aide and surrogate son to Washington.

Like George Washington before him, however, and for some reasons we may never know, Lt. Col. Washington was unable, until his own tragic death, to rid himself of the albatross of slavery hanging ...

Thomas Jefferson’s slave-owning legacy has been covered in the news lately; however, the biggest slave owner among the four men was the father of our country, George Washington.

Ona Judge, a woman who had been born as a slave at Mount Vernon and was serving them in Philadelphia during his presidency, fled from slavery and the Washingtons. As Washington described to the ...

George Washington and slavery. But what about George Washington’s more challenging history – other than his leadership of the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War and his two terms as ...

Charles Mitchell was a Black child who was enslaved in Washington territory and won his freedom by escaping to Canada in 1860, documenting slavery’s early existence on Washington soil. George ...

A new exhibit at President George Washington's estate in Mount Vernon will open to the public on Juneteenth, and it explores ...

Mary V. Thompson, a research specialist at Mt. Vernon, studies the domestic life, foodways, and religious practices of the residents of George Washington's plantation, with a special interest in ...