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WP: How an enslaver’s statue became the center of Trump’s exhibit at Freedom Plaza

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The National Park Service has installed a temporary exhibition at Washington, D.C.’s Freedom Plaza featuring more than a dozen statues depicting Revolutionary War figures, including six Black soldiers and a prominent equestrian statue of Caesar Rodney, a Delaware Founding Father who enslaved people.

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Column | How an enslaver’s statue became the center of Trump’s exhibit at Freedom Plaza

A lesser-known semiquincentennial project occupies a central square in the nation’s capital.

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The Washington Post broke the news in Washington, United States on Tuesday, August 11, 2026.
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