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Famous U.S. Buildings And Landmarks Were Built With Slave Labor
The White House, The Capitol and other historic US buildings were built, in part, using slave labor. Using Liberal Logic… They MUST be torn down now!
From Curbed:
Michelle Obama’s DNC speech was a reminder that slave labor helped build the White House. It helped build these other famous structures, too.
1 U.S. Capitol Building
In 2012, Congress unveiled an historic marker that commemorated the slave labor that went into the construction of the capitol. The area where the legislative center of the U.S. sits was previously known as Jenkins Hill, a heavily forested area that required extensive landscaping, as well as trench digging for the foundation, from slaves, all before George Washington laid the cornerstone in 1793. According to Fred Beuttler, a Historian for the House of Representatives, one of the building’s most iconic symbols, the brass Statue of Freedom, was in part, fashioned through the efforts of a Philip Reid, a former slave. In 1863, after the Emancipation Proclamation had been delivered, Reid helped work with the plaster model delivered by sculptor Thomas Crawford, and forged Crawford’s model. In addition, according to Beuttler, some of the sandstone in the old east front of the building contains the names of slave laborers who had cut the stone.
These 9 Words Can Tell Where You Grew Up
If said a certain way, these words and phrases are a dead giveaway to where you’re from.
In his book “Speaking American” Josh Katz learned that some words are dead giveaways for where an American grew up.
“Some words are like out-of-state license plates—they’re dead giveaways that you’re not from around here. Just try rhyming aunt with can’t in parts of the Northeast or Upper Midwest (you can’t) or ordering a sub in Philadelphia, the epicenter of hoagie country.
In recent years, linguists have pondered whether the homogenizing effects of TV, film, and the Internet have begun to eliminate many so-called regionalisms. To find out, I surveyed Americans about how we talk for my book, Speaking American.”
What we call insects that glow at night
What we call a sale of household items
How we address a group of people
What we call carbonated beverages
Where we throw our trash
What we haul freight in
What we drink from in public places
What we call athletic footwear
How many syllables in caramel?
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