Photo“We had so much material, and it’s such an important story,” Susan P. Schoelwer, the curator at Mount Vernon, said. Why don’t I know about her?’” Ms. Dunbar recalled. “There’s a myth of the North as free, but her story shows how complicated that was,” Ms. Dunbar said. When Washington became president, Judge followed the first couple to New York and then Philadelphia, home to a growing free black community. Ms. Dunbar calls Washington’s act “no small thing,” but does not see the former president, who had no biological children to disinherit, as the hero of the story.

Source: New York Times February 06, 2017 18:58 UTC