A U.S. congressman is urging President Obama to recognize the work of enslaved African-Americans who helped build the White House. “Slaves helped dig the foundation for the White House,” Ackerman wrote in correspondence to the White House Thursday. “They quarried stone that would be used for the walls, dug up clay for thousands of bricks, cut timber, sawed lumber, and performed carpentry inside the White House. Read full story….
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