She was enslaved at birth – but became the first lady’s favorite dressmaker and the author of a sensational memoir that shocked the nation. So who was Elizabeth Keckly?
Slavery in the President’s Neighborhood
The complicated past and the paradoxical relationship between slavery and freedom in the nation’s capital. In partnership with The White House Historical Association
The Enslaved Household of Thomas Jefferson
This is the story of Ursula, Edith and Frances – three teenagers who Thomas Jefferson brought to the White House to train as his enslaved personal chefs.