Google Book of Solomon Northrup publication which formed the foundation for Oscar-nominated "Twelve Years a Slave." The author's experiences as a freeman, captured and enslaved by the National Mall, and sold south where he labored on a plantation until freed by the actions of family and abolitionist supporters.
Clark Mills, culptor of the Lafayette Park Andrew Jackson statue writes to Washington Post in 1877 about the scandalous shame of the unfinished washington monument
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