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Stratford Hall honors the enslaved hands who built the Lee family’s plantation and its wealth

Dancers at Stratford Hall’s First Africans Day (Credit: Pamela D’Angelo)

In 1738 a British slave trading ship arrived on the Potomac River. Onboard, 70 enslaved Africans for sale to nearby plantation owners.

Some may have been purchased by Thomas Lee to build Stratford’s Great House and its dependencies.

Today, the Stratford Hall Historic Preserve is paying homage to them and the unknown others who labored for the wealth of the Lee family. Pamela D’Angelo reports.

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