Washington Informer Charities Heritage Tour Takes Guests to Learn About the Black Presence at Tudor Place

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by James Wright, WI Staff Writer

Juanita Katon loves history and was thrilled when asked by Washington Informer Newspaper Publisher Denise Rolark Barnes to lead a tour of the company’s annual African American Heritage Tour. “I have always loved history,” said Katon, 65. “Throughout high school and college, I took Black history courses. It was always love.” Katon is the owner and operator of DC In Black LLC, a firm that offers tours of Black historical sites in the Washington area. On July 20, she led a group of 36 Washington Informer Charities African American Heritage Tour participants to the Georgetown in Northwest, D.C. to visit Tudor Place.

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BIOGRAPHY CENTRAL

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Follow archivist and historian Heather Bollinger as she uncovers and reports the lives of enslaved and free people who lived and worked at this National Historic Landmark.
  • Read Patty Allen’s biography here (1770-1831). While enslaved by the Peters at Tudor Place, Patty lived with her free husband off the property. Every day, Patty labored as the cook for the Peter family.
  • Read Ralph Anderson’s biography here (1790-unrecorded). Part of Marta Peter’s inheritance of 48 enslaved people after the death of her grandmother, Martha Washington.
  • Read Stacia Hepburn’s biography here (1801-1895). Anastacia “Stacia” Hepburn was born about 1801, likely in Montgomery County, Maryland, and was enslaved to the Peter family.

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