Anonymous ID: cd3d89 July 25, 2022, 6:48 p.m. No.16822209   🗄️.is đź”—kun

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The acknowledgement of Washington’s biracial family tree by the National Park Service and the nonprofit that runs the Mount Vernon estate is the latest development in more than 200 years of speculation about the complicated history of the nation’s “first family.” The first step of this historic recognition came in June, when the Park Service held a reenactment of the marriage of Maria (pronounced “Ma-RYE-eh”) Carter to Charles Syphax at Arlington House, the hilltop mansion built by Parke Custis and later managed by his son-in-law, Robert E. Lee. Both Carter and Syphax were slaves at Mount Vernon, working as household servants, when they married in 1821. A new family tree unveiled at the reenactment listed George Washington Parke Custis and Arianna Carter as the bride’s parents.

 

“We fully recognize that the first family of this country was much more than what it appeared on the surface,” Matthew Penrod, a National Park Service ranger and programs manager at Arlington House, said at the ceremony. In addition to the reenactment, a new exhibit opening at Arlington House this year, “Lives Bound Together,” acknowledges that in addition to Maria Carter, Parke Custis likely also had a daughter, Lucy, with Caroline Branham, another of Washington’s slaves.

 

https://www.history.com/news/organizations-acknowledge-george-washingtons-biracial-family-tree