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How do you draw the conclusion that waking up in a house built by slaves means waking up in a house built ONLY by slaves?The legend of slaves building Capitol is correct
But the task force did find plenty of evidence of slave involvement in the Capitol's construction. Perhaps the most compelling evidence were records of payments from the commissioners for the District of Columbia — the three men appointed by George Washington to oversee the construction of the Capitol and the rest of the city of Washington — to slave owners for the rental of slaves to work on the Capitol. The records reflect 385 payments between 1795 and 1801 for "Negro hire," a euphemism for the yearly rental of slaves.
Slave crews also toiled at the marble and sandstone quarries that provided the stone to face the structure — lonely, grueling work with bleak living conditions in rural Virginia and elsewhere. "Keep the yearly hirelings at work from sunrise to sunset — particularly the Negroes," the commissioners wrote to quarry operator William O'Neale in 1794.
Pelosi might have specified that slaves were only part of the work force, but they were involved with almost every aspect of construction for at least the first several years. We find her statement True.
The legend of slaves building Capitol is correct
Poor racist whites and stupid conservatives...wrong yet again....
Slaves participated in the building of the White House.
Problem is, Michelle has made the claim before that "she wakes up in a house every day that was built by slaves".
If you leave it at that, you come away believing they were the only ones who built it. That of course is not correct.
The architect was white, and even the later architect was white, and the skilled white workers had to teach the slaves how to fucking do their job.
Hopefully next time the First Lady will be accurate and say something like this:
"I wake up in a house every day, where slaves participated in the construction of".
Hopefully she'll get onboard real quick, because she ain't gonna be waking up in the house for much longer !!
Michelle:
“I wake up every morning in a house that was built by slaves."
The proper and truthful way to say this would be something like this:
"I wake up every morning in a house, where slaves participated in the construction of it"