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The history of American slavery is not buried in the past.

It is written into the nation's landscape.

It stands in brick and stone, in ports and fields, in the architecture of power itself.

Slavery shaped where America built, how it expanded, and who profited.

At Monticello and Mount Vernon, enslaved people built and sustained the homes of presidents.

In Charleston and New Orleans, auction blocks once stood near busy docks where human lives were bought and sold alongside cotton and sugar.

In Washington, D.C., enslaved labor helped construct the White House and the Capitol, enduring symbols of liberty and freedom constructed amid bondage.

Follow the geography and the system comes into wider focus.

Tobacco in Virginia, rice in the Carolinas, sugar along the Mississippi, cotton spreading across the Deep South.