Title Upon the ruins of liberty : slavery, the President's House at Independence National Historical Park, and public memory / Roger C. Aden

Published Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : Temple University Press, 2015

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Description 1 online resource Contents Discovering the truth: the revelation of ugly history -- Re-collecting the past: the complexity of public memory -- Displacing the inconvenient: the incomplete story of liberty -- Honoring the ancestors: the quest for acknowledgement -- Shaping the place: the design competition -- Revealing the foundations: the excavation of the site -- Telling the stories: the opening of the installation -- Continuing the conversation: the legacy of the President's House Summary The 2002 revelation that George Washington kept slaves in his executive mansion at Philadelphia's Independence National Historical Park in the 1790s prompted an eight-year controversy about the role of slavery in America's commemorative landscape. When the President's House installation opened in 2010, it became the first federal property to feature a slave memorial. In Upon the Ruins of Liberty, Roger Aden offers a compelling account that explores the development of this important historic site and how history, space, and public memory intersected with contemporary racial politics. Aden con Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Online resource; title from pdf information screen (EBSCO, viewed November 25, 2014) Subject Adams, John, 1735-1826 -- Homes and haunts -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia Washington, George, 1732-1799 -- Homes and haunts -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia Washington, George, 1732-1799 -- Relations with slaves Adams, John, 1735-1826 -- Homes and haunts -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia Washington, George, 1732-1799 -- Homes and haunts -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia Washington, George, 1732-1799 -- Relations with slaves Adams, John, 1735-1826. Washington, George, 1732-1799. President's House (Philadelphia, Pa.) President's House (Philadelphia, Pa.) Lost architecture -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia Slavery -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- History -- 18th century Antiquities. Buildings. HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- General. HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- Middle Atlantic (DC, DE, MD, NJ, NY, PA) HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- New England (CT, MA, ME, NH, RI, VT) Homes. LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- General. Lost architecture. Relations with slaves. Slavery. Independence National Historical Park (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- Antiquities Philadelphia (Pa.) -- Antiquities Philadelphia (Pa.) -- Buildings, structures, etc Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- Independence National Historical Park. Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia. Genre/Form History. Form Electronic book ISBN 1439912017 9781439912010

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