For over two hundred years, Eliza Monroe has been portrayed as a hysterical and temperamental woman who abandoned her country and fled to France. The tale, however, did not ring true to author Barbara VornDick. She spent years researching Eliza, utilizing records on both continents. Her ground-breaking work shows Eliza in a new light and […]

Trafficked to Louisiana: The Untold Story of the People Enslaved at Oak Hill Saturday February 8, at 1pm  Flyer In 1838, 40 men, women and children were sold from President Monroe’s Oak Hill plantation in Loudoun County. They were trafficked south, along the coast, and up the Mississippi River to Iberville Parish to work on […]