1) they... actually had to check this? and 2) they actually call a fact from 200+ years ago "new"https://twitter.com/politifact/status/757780883432697857 …
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Philip Reid was born in 1820, 30 years after White House construction began and 20 years after presidents made it their primary residence.
Philip Reid, an enslaved black man, worked on the Statue of Freedom in 1862, nearly a century after the White House was first built.
The irony: they had a black enslaved man building the Statue of Freedom... #Merica
Philip Reid's was paid some money for working on the Statue of Freedom; he also got his freedom after working on it for about two years.
Reid's story is extraordinary because it didn't work like that for most slaves. He also worked on a statue—not on building the WH itself.
So please lay to rest this idea what black slaves were getting paid to build the White House—white slavemasters were the ones making money.
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