This slave sold vegetables in front of the White House to buy freedom for herself and other slaves
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In 1810, Alethia Browning Tanner bought her freedom with $1400 she had earned selling vegetables in the area known today as Lafayette Square. The area on the north side of the White House was part of public grounds known as President’s Park. Enslaved men and women in the 1800s sold fruits and vegetables there to...