The Mere Distinction of Colour brochure Montpelier_RestorationBooklet_PRESS | Page 2

Engaging with the community of descendants of At several points in the House cellars and the
those enslaved by the Madison family has been a reconstructed buildings in the South Yard, visitors
hallmark of Montpelier’s work interpreting slavery. hear and see descendants discussing, in their own
Members of the descendant community became voices, the institution of slavery, the way it was
collaborators in this exhibition. practiced at Montpelier, the stories of their ancestors,
and what those ancestors mean to them.
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