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Photographer: Richard E. Miller
Taken: September 8, 2008
Caption: Slavery and the Riversdale Dependency
Additional Description: African American docents in 19th century attire relate the story of the Plummer family and slavery at Riversdale to visitors, using exhibits and artifacts on display in the "dependency." Rare details about life in the Riversdale slave community have been gleaned from diarist Adam Francis Plummer's writings, now preserved at the Anacostia Museum in Washington, D.C.
Submitted: October 5, 2008, by Richard E. Miller of Oxon Hill, Maryland.
Database Locator Identification Number: p37942
File Size: 0.052 Megabytes

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