“Freedom House,” once the site of the largest slave-trading operation in the pre-Civil War United States, has been transformed by Alexandria city historians.
“Back then, they could have possibly sold you from your family, too," his mom, Erin Smith, told the Black middle-schooler as he clutched her arm. “You would be valuable. They would profit from it.”Smith nodded. As she explained to him and his two younger siblings — and as a large sign next to them did, too — this brick rowhouse in Old Town Alexandria had once served as the site ofin the pre-Civil War United States.
Daniel Lee, a city historian, said the pair intentionally located their enterprise outside the city limits of what would have then been D.C., in part to keep away from the more respectable businesses closer to the Potomac River.Today, however, the building makes no secret of what happened past its doors: “You are standing in what remains of a large complex dedicated to trafficking thousands of Black men, women and children,” the sign in the entryway announces to visitors.
Rose’s story perhaps offers the most direct connection between the various exhibits. Her father, the Rev. Lewis Henry Bailey, was enslaved in the pen by Franklin and Armfield as a child and sold in Texas. When he was freed years later, he walked all the way back to Alexandria looking to reunite with his mother. The structure is called Freedom House in his honor.
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