Today we tour the Governor’s Palace with Hannah, an enslaved housemaid owned by Lord Dunmore. Having worked at the Palace for decades under three different governors, Hannah knows how much labor is required to maintain the Palace as the grand social center of the colony of Virginia.
To learn more about enslaved people and servants at the palace, visit: https://www.colonialwilliamsburg.org/learn/deep-dives/the-enslaved-people-and-servants-of-the-governors-palace/
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