A slave-quarried block of sandstone that once was part of the Capitol was dedicated in the Capitol Visitor Center’s Emancipation Hall.
“For too long, the sacrifice of men and women who built this temple of democracy were overlooked; their toil forgotten; their story ignored or denied, and their voices silenced in the pages of history,’’ House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi of San Francisco said at the ceremony. "Yet today, we join together to strive to right this wrong of our past, to honor the sacrifice of these laborers, to lay down a marker of gratitude and respect for those who built the walls of the Capitol.’’
