As the capital of the United States of America, Washington, D.C., is home to towering monuments meant to be symbols of freedom and democracy. But from the hands that built these iconic landmarks to the victims of experimentation that took place in the city’s most respected institutions, here are five stories that reveal a side of the city that’s rarely seen but impossible to ignore. Discover the colonization of the Anacostans, the slave jail just south of the National Mall, the most extensive attempt to escape from American slavery, the original Uncle Tom, and the Smithsonian's “racial brain collection.”
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