Freedom Before Emancipation: Family Day for Juneteenth

Discover how enslaved men and women at Mount Vernon defined their agency and the legacies they left behind. Explore locations and objects that tell the story of the enslaved at Mount Vernon with a self-guided map, watch character performances that consider freedom and resistance through the eyes of Ona Judge and Christopher Sheels, join an Enslaved People of Mount Vernon specialty tour, and honor the lives of the enslaved at commemoration ceremonies in the Slave Burial Ground.