On the evening before Thomas Jefferson turns his document over to the committee, he is visited by three inspiring voices. Witness a series of imagined conversations between Thomas Jefferson, John Locke, and King George III to discover the ghosts behind Jefferson’s drafts of the Declaration of Independence. Examine the document we celebrate on the Fourth of July from a different light.

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Visit a Nation Builder- Martha Washington
Step into the past with Martha Washington, our Nation's first First Lady.
CW Admission
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All Things are Possible
On September 5, 1791, Robert Carter III recorded an extraordinary document. Why did the largest slaveholder in Virginia do what most of his peers consider impossible?
Art Museums Admission
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Tracing Adam Waterford
Discover what we know and what we don't know about Adam Waterford, a free Black man who worked as a cooper in Williamsburg during the time of the American Revolution,
Art Museums Admission