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Echoes of slavery at Liberty Bell site.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
PHILADELPHIA _ In a year, when visitors enter the new $9 million pavilion to view the Liberty Bell, they will tread directly over ground where George Washington's slaves toiled, slept, suffered and plotted escape during the eight years of his presidency.
When the pavilion was designed, no one knew the exact location of the old President's House, where Washington and successor John Adams lived from 1790 until 1800.
And no one apparently considered the possibility that the pavilion would be on the soil where Washington kept his human property.
Now that soil is yielding caustic debate.
New historic research shows the presence of slaves at the heart of one of the nation's most potent symbols of freedom.
The National Park Service says the Liberty Bell is its own story, and Washington's slaves are a different one better told elsewhere.
But some historians insist slavery is an integral part of this piece of ground.
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