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.

 

Read additional stories of others:

Barbara Cole William’s story, (1809-1892).

For Barbara’s daughter, Hannah Pope, (1829-1910).

Charlie (unrecorded – 1824) one of the dining room servants.

Annie Gray, (unrecorded) an enslaved seamstress.