Slavery Commemoration/President's House Construction Photos

Construction laborer Ashanti Royster is hard at work placing massive cement slabs on the heavy-duty fork lifter being operated by Cliff Brock. By the way, Ms. Royster's essential role in "site preparation" for this Slavery Commemoration/President's House project is proof of ATAC's commitment to female diversity and inclusion. And it's also proof that Moll and Oney Judge- who were the females enslaved by President George Washington at this site about 200 years ago- are quite proud to "see" one of their female descendants hard at work honoring them by helping to build this historic project.

This is African American business owner Cliff Brock and Lamont McCoy, one of his employees, hard at work doing "site preparation" for the historic project.

General Contractor's trailer arrives today.

This is the heavy-duty moving equipment driven by African-American Cliff Brock. His Black-owned and operated demolition/construction removal business was the first of all businesses to begin work at the site preparation.

This is some residue from part of the remainder of an impressively sturdy temporary viewing platform, which was demolished today. That platform held more than 300,000 tourists who observed the archaeological dig during the summer of 2007. By the way, it was constructed in June 2007 by an African American owned and operated company and demolished today by another African American owned and operated company. Also, it must be noted that this view, near the upper right, beneath the overhang, is the area where the Slave Quarters once stood.