In 1791, President George Washington appointed a commission to build the future capital of the nation.
They moved stones for Scottish masons and sawed lumber for Irish carpenters.
In 1798, half of the two hundred workers Building the two most Iconic Washington landmarks, the Capitol and the White House, were slaves.
The commission found paying masters of faraway Maryland plantations sixty dollars a year for their slaves made it easier to keep wages low for free workers who flocked to the city.
In 1791, President George Washington appointed a commission to build the future capital of the nation