really happy to have you here. I apologize for having this totally lame voice and also for

looking all puffy. Susan and I went away for a few days, which we never ever do. So naturally,

punished for my sins, I caught a cold right at the end of us being away. And now I'm back.

And I'm here and I'm fine, but I sound

like Foghorn, Leghorn, and I know, and I'm sorry, I apologize. I'll be better quickly,

I promise. All right. This is Majuel Johnson. He is a historian. He's based in Philly,

and My Jill Johnson leads a walking tour of that city. His walking tour is called the Black Journey,

African-American walking tour of Philadelphia. And on his walking tour, you will see, you know,

the Liberty Bell and Congress Hall and all the big Philly sites, but you'll also see the national

historic site that's called the President's

House. The President's House is where the first presidents of the United States lived in Philly

while the White House was under construction in D.C. So George Washington lived there. The second

president, John Adams, did as well. And as you might know, when George Washington moved into the

president's house in Philly, when he lived there, he had with him there nine people who he kept

in slavery. And because of that, for more than 15 years now, that National Historic Site in Philly,

the president's house, has included an exhibit about that,

about those nine people who lived there with George Washington. And it is a fascinating story, right?

I mean, this contradiction of George Washington as the first president, the man who led the literal

fight for American liberty, while he was also simultaneously personally

enslaving people, including right there in Philadelphia at the president's house. We think of

slavery as a southern thing, right? But there it was. So the city of Philadelphia did a partnership

with the National Park Service, and they installed an exhibit of art and plaques

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