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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The city of Alexandria was built on the backs of slaves. Old town was a major port for the slave trade industry.

Classy.[/quote]

That is correct and Arlington was part of Alexandria when the slave trade occurred.  Georgetown had the largest slave market and Georgetown, including the university, was built on the backs of slaves, including those who were sold by the university to that more buildings could be built.   Alexandria was occupied by the Union troops during the Civil War and Fort Ward had watchtowers looking into the countryside for Confederate troops.  A house still stands in our neighborhood that a hospital for Union troops.

The White House, the Capitol and early federal buildings were built on the backs of slaves.  If you are in a snit about slavery in Alexandria, you better be in a snit about your first president who owned slaves which he freed but his lovely wife, Martha, did not free her slaves. She gave them to her son for his Arlington Plantation.   One of the slaves at Arlington was impregnated by Martha's son and bore a child who would become her white sister's maid.  The white sister went on to marry Robert E. Lee and was thrown out Arlington Plantation when the Union made her taxes so high she could not pay them. She fled to Richmond and Arlington became a cemetery for - first Union soldiers killed in the Civil War -- then those enslaved at Arlington Plantation.  The maid married into a family of free blacks who became prominent black educators in Arlington and Arlington's public school admin building is name after her family.  Meanwhile, everything public property in Arlington bearing the name "Lee" is being renamed while the maid's name lives on.

So you don't think people should live in Alexandria  because it had a slave port? Tell me about a part of the United States where people were not exploited?

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