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Free Lecture: Lives Bound Together

Title:Free Lecture: Lives Bound Together
Date & Time:Wed Nov 8, 2017 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM
Location:Alexandria Black History Museum, 902 Wythe St. (Map This)
Event Details:In 2016, Mount Vernon opened the landmark exhibition, Lives Bound Together: Slavery at George Washington’s Mount Vernon. The exhibition tells the extraordinary stories of Mount Vernon’s enslaved community through objects, documents, artwork, archaeological artifacts, and oral history. Join Director of Archaeology Luke Pecoraro and Associate Curator Jessie MacLeod to learn more about the people who lived in bondage on Washington’s plantation, as well as an update on new additions and new discoveries to the exhibition and the multi-year archaeological survey of the slave cemetery site.

Doors open at 6:30 p.m.
Contact Phone No.:703.746.4356
Fees:Free and appropriate for all ages, attendees will also receive 50% off admission on their next visit to George Washington's Mount Vernon
Audience:Anyone may attend
Tags:Black History Museum, Museums, Old & Historic Alexandria, Parker Gray


For event details visit http://www.alexandriava.gov/c/16955
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