Slave labor helped build America, there is no denying this fact. Enslaved Black folks did all the hard work building this country, including the White House in 1792, the U.S. Capitol in 1793, George Washington’s Mt. Vernon, Virginia Plantation in 1758, Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello, Virginia Plantation in 1772, and New York’s Wall Street in 1652 — used as a slave auction site from 1711-1762, attorney Michael Coard, host of “Radio Courtroom” on WURD96.1 FM, wrote in the Philadelphia Tribune.
