Why are the Slave Quarters important?
The majority of locations at the President’s House were used by many members of the household. The Slave Quarters stands as a commemorative location used exclusively by the enslaved at the beginning of Washington’s residence at the President’s House. In this place we can commemorate the lives, dignity, fears, and struggles of the enslaved of African descent, in the context of power and unpower, of freedom and unfreedom in the making of our nation.
