The architecture is notable here, but nothing impressed me more than this facsimile of a 1789 painting of the activity on the 1300 acre plantation The large mansion overlooked the river and Fredericksburg was financed by the toil of the enslaved. As I walked through the gardens with the many statues of cherubs, I knew that only the children of the house under the eye of their mammy would have been permitted to enjoy them, at the expense of the stripes and chains about their servants who toiled most of the day -- Sundays excepted.
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