The National Park Service has taken down a slavery exhibit on a site in Philadelphia that marks the home where President George Washington lived when the city served as one of the first capitals of the United States.
The removal of panels at the President’s House Site in the city’s Independence National Historical Park follows President Trump’s directive last March to remove materials that promote “corrosive ideology.”
The outdoor exhibit called “Freedom and Slavery in the Making of a New Nation,” memorialized nine people enslaved by the nation’s first president, according to the group that backed the project.
The National Park Service website says the exhibit “examines the paradox between...
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