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Tag: Enslaved People of George Mason Memorial Project
African-American
George Mason University Makes Plans to Memorialize Its Namesake’s Slaves
Four years ago, at George Mason University, Black students in the honors college started asking questions: Who were the slaves of George Mason IV, the 18th-century Virginia lawmaker whose name marks the school, and what were their lives like? Those discussions turned into a research program, which culminated in the Enslaved People of George Mason Memorial Project, a plan to add monuments commemorating George Mason IV’s slaves in the center of campus next year.
March 22, 2020
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