Steve Hammond presents on and leads a panel discussion on how descendants of the enslaved and free people at the Arlington House plantation have found one another and come together after more than 160 years.

For more information on the descendants and their stories see:

NPR story about the 2023 family reunion.

CBS This Morning – Arlington House reopening 2021

Redesignate Arlington House

Freedman’s Village – A panel of historians and archivists will discuss Freedman’s Village

Nancy Syphax – Life and Legacy, An Enslaved Resident of the Historic Decatur House