Out of the Shadows

Click here to read about how this Prince George’s County plantation museum is bringing stories of enslaved people out of the shadows.

Executive director Maya Davis poses for a portrait in the Riversdale House Museum. In the background are reproductions of paintings of the Lords Baltimore (Calvert family) who owned and lived in the house. Davis and her staff are trying to introduce more the the history and stories of enslaved people who lived at the house, as well as trace their genealogy.

Tyrone Turner / DCist/WAMU