TUDOR PLACE | Last day open of 2024: Sunday, December 29.
A new installation intended to uncover the lives of the generations of free and enslaved people who lived and worked at the Tudor Place, a historic Georgetown property that now serves as a museum, opened Feb. 6.
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From Ancestral Spaces at Tudor Place; Credit: Darrow MontgomeryThe temporary installation and guided tour pieces together fragmented histories of both the enslaved and free Black people who cared for the historic house—a successful first step in telling the full story.
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Ann Chinn, a descendant of Hannah Pope, poses for a photoAnn Chinn was invited to the Tudor Place for her daughter’s classmate’s birthday party years ago. When the child’s mother asked if she needed directions to the historic home, Chinn responded, “No, that was our family home.” The mother looked upon her strangely; she didn’t know Chinn is the descendant of a multigenerational legacy of enslaved African women at Tudor Place.
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Press Release
January 16, 2024
Washington, DC — Tudor Place Historic House & Garden presents Ancestral Spaces: People of African Descent at Tudor Place, a special installation and guided tour that explores the lives of individuals and families of African descent who lived and worked at Tudor Place.
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Listen to an interview with Mark Hudson, introducing “Ancestral Spaces: People of African Descent at Tudor Place,” the special new installation and guided tour.
Tudor Place Curator Robert DeHart and Archivist Haley Wilkinson share recent work that has prompted a more equitable and inclusive interpretation in tours, events and programs that embrace the agency of enslaved people. Hear details about how the work informs interpretation and what surprises were uncovered.
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An original camp stool from the Tudor Place Collection, which travelled with George Washington during the Revolutionary War, will be a part of an upcoming exhibition “Witness to Revolution: The Unlikely Travels of Washington’s Tent” at the Museum of the American Revolution in Philadelphia, PA. It will be reunited with other artifacts from Washington’s life during the Revolutionary War such as his foldable field bedstead, a silver camp cup and, of course, George Washington’s War Tent.
The camp stool will return to Tudor Place once the exhibition concludes on January 5, 2025. Be sure to visit the Museum of the American Revolution starting President’s Day Weekend to learn more about this essential part of American History.
Read the article “Upcoming Special Exhibition “Witness to Revolution: The Unlikely Travels of Washington’s Tent” Opens at the Museum of the American Revolution on Presidents Day Weekend, Feb. 2024″ here.
Join Tudor Place for a guided candlelit tour highlighting the season of gift giving among the Peter family and the African American and immigrant domestic laborers who lived and worked at Tudor Place.
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By Mennatalla Ibrahim
Special to the AFRO | October 24, 2023
Photo courtesy: Francesca Donovan
There’s great comfort and privilege in tracing one’s features or mannerisms through a family line. However, for many African Americans across the country, this task is often marked with a unique pain and difficulty due to the absence or distortion of records left behind during slavery.
The annual Tudor Place Landmark Lecture Series makes space for the descendants of enslaved people to share their journeys in piecing together their ancestors’ stories.
“Tudor Place is keeping enslaved people’s stories alive,” said Jerolyn Cole, a descendent of John Luckett, who served as a gardener at Tudor Place for 44 years.
Descendants of enslaved individuals discussed the generational historical trauma and emotional responses that came with discovering the stories of their ancestors.
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As an historic site that bears the scars of slavery, Tudor Place seeks to look this injustice in the eye. Click here to learn more.
