To situate the president ial plantations back into the history of slavery. Or to situate slavery back into the history of the president ial plantations. Not entirely sure. I went back and forth on how to say that. Im not entirely sure which is the right way to say it. The crucial thing to say is that we are considering the processes that have raised the obvious that heavy raced that have erased obvious location of the enslaved in the histories of the presidencies. Everyone here on this panel, and many of you in the audience are involved in efforts that precisely do not assume slavery is some sort of addition or add on to the president ial histories, but the two are inextricable. To that end im excited to hear each of this afternoons speakers talk about the work they are undergoing at the president ial plantations. I will introduce all of them now in the order in which they will speak. We planned the presentations to allow for significant time at the end for the panelists is to panelist
Montpelier, the home of James Madison, has been taken over by the radical left. In the past few months, a battle had been waging between the Montpelier Descendent Committee and the Montpelier Foundation’s board of directors. Recently, the board was expected to select nine of the 20 candidates put forward by the MDC; they gave the MDC members board majority by selecting 11. We can now expect Madison’s legacy the fourth president of the United States and key architect of the U.S. Constitution to be effectively erased.