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Lafayette Square Interactive Tour Map 120 Ewell House 119 712 Jackson Place 118 Decatur House 117 Members of Gadsby's Enslaved Household 116 Decatur House Slave Quarters 115 Jennings' Letter 114 Daniel Webster's House 113 Civil Rights Era 112 Weddings at St. John's 111 St. John's Church 110 Dolley Madison's House 109 Tayloe House 108 Lillian Evanti Recording 107 Rodgers House/Belasco Theater 106 Freedman's Savings and Trust Co. 105 The White House 104 Andrew Jackson Statue 103 Lafayette Square

103 Lafayette Square
[An enslaved woman buys her freedom and changes the nation's history...]


104 Andrew Jackson Statue
[A slave helps craft this statue and the Capitol's statue of freedom...]


105 The White House
[From slavery to sit-ins...]


106 Freedman's Savings and Trust Co.
[(today site of the Treasury Annex) $3M dollars vanish without a trace...]


107 Rodgers House/Belasco Theater
[(today Court of Claims entrance) A command performance by the first African American opera star...]


108 Lillian Evanti Recording *


109 Tayloe House
[Compensated emancipation, only in DC...]


110 Dolley Madison's House
[A former slave shows charity toward an impoverished First lady...]


111 St. John's Church
[Free and enslaved African Americans are married at the President's Parish...]


112 Weddings at St. John's


113 Civil Rights Era


114 Daniel Webster's House
[(today site of US Chamber of Commerce) A slave plans a daring escape, but has a change of heart...]


115 Jennings' Letter


116 Decatur House Slave Quarters
[Men, women and children from two families living together in 900sq. ft...]


117 Members of Gadsby's Enslaved Household


118 Decatur House
[Where Charlotte Dupuy takes a brave stand against slavery...]


119 712 Jackson Place
[(today site of the Truman Foundation) Murder or self-defense? Will justice be served on Jackson Place?...]


120 Ewell House
[(today site of 734-736 Jackson Place) Buying, selling, and resisting...]