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Slavery Blind Spots in Historic Places Listings Across South
A detailed review finds National Register entries for antebellum plantations rarely mention enslaved people who built and labored there. Experts cite missing records, past biases, and a slow push to update nominations, with some sites like Mount Vernon and Monticello omitting slavery details.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Birmingham
Ala
Ople
United States
George Washington
National Register
Mount Vernon
Thomas Efferson
Monticello
Ross
Ashley Rogers
Iid Rogers
Whitneylantation Museum
Orleans
Whitney
New Orleans
Count Vernon
Monti‘lo
Virginia
Hasan Kwameffries
Ohio Stateniversity
Jeffries
Congress
National Park Service
The
Park Service
Magnolia Grove
Greensboro
Alabama
Kingsley
Jacksonville
Florida
Zephaniah Kingsley
South
Clifton Ellis
Ellis
Texas Tech University
Academy
Sarah David
North Carolina
Capitol
Confederate States of America
Horace King
Joe McGill
McGill