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The Enslaved Families Who Worked This Land

  • by Robert Malesky
  • Posted on February 12, 2020October 14, 2022

Slavery was legal in Washington DC until 1862, when Abraham Lincoln signed the Compensated Emancipation Act. Through it, we can learn a great deal about those people held in bondage in what would become Brookland.

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  • LOCAL LORE

The Irony Behind the Statue of Freedom

  • by Robert Malesky
  • Posted on July 26, 2014October 15, 2022

Sculptor Clark Mills opened a foundry nearby back in the 1840s. He produced many great statues with the help of an enslaved artisan named Philip Reid, including the statue of Freedom atop the Capitol building.

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Lucy Diggs Slowe and Mary Burrill and the fight to stay in their Brookland home

Building the Filter

The Brookland Childhood of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

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