European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 18, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 the stars and stripes . Sunday september 18,1994mount Vernon event honors slaves Muriel Lites stands beside a Granite memorial at mount Vernon va., that honors the slaves who worked at George Washington a mansion along the Potomac River. Wiesbaden Mainz mount Vernon a. A the thousands of visitors who come to George Washington a Home every Day see the gracious mansion with Lovely Antiques handsome lawns and Fine old gardens. Rohalamin Quander sees All that and something More. He sees the work of his ancestors slaves owned by the first president who built and maintained mount Vernon. A the pretty House and the pretty Lawn Are an integral part of our american history heritage and culture a said Quan Der a lawyer in the nations capital. A but i see who built that House who cooked the food that was eaten in that House who sewed the curtains and the clothes that were worn in that  Nancy Quander was a 13-year-old slave who spun yarn at one of Washington a five farms when the former president re corded her name in a 1799 census of his slaves. On saturday Rohalamin Quad Eros 14-year-old daughter Fatima and other descendants of Washington a slaves were to stand near the unmarked Graves of their ancestors and read off the names of the. 316 slaves he held at his death in 1799. A. M a for too Long african americans have Felt kind of floaty like we done to have any real ties to family history or slave beginnings said Muriel Lites an organizer of saturdays ceremony. A this makes it meaningful. It lets you know we re standing on hallowed ground Here standing on the shoulders of  mount Vernon was an 8,000-acre estate in Washington a time and took enormous labor to run. 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Many of those slaves freed in 1800 and others freed during the civil War settled nearby. Their descendants still live a few Miles away at a Hamlet called gum Spring by the time of the revolutionary War Washington had begun to question slavery and he resolved never again to buy or sell a slave. Washington May have been troubled by slavery but he could not envision How the agrarian life he knew could be possible without it said Russell Adams chairman of the Black history department at Howard University in Washington . A by Way of analysis not approval i usually make the argument that africans were not seen As potential members of society and the rules of democracy and Equality were not expected to be extend eds to them Adams said. Reconciling Washington the Patriot and Washington the slave owner has Al ways been a prickly proposition and there was a time when slaves were rarely mentioned at mount Vernon. A 1929 memorial to Washington a slaves was mostly forgotten and overgrown with Brush when Litesy organization Black women United for action began building another Monument nearby. The memorials stand at the Edge of the old slave burial ground in a Patch of Woods far from the White Stone mansion on the Potomac River. A a. Most of the names and histories of those buried there Are lost said Dennis Pogue restoration director at mount Vernon. But Nancy Quander who died around 1835, is believed to lie there. The quanders were one of the main slave families at mount Vernon and one of the nations oldest Black families with roots in neighbouring Maryland dating to the 1600s, Rohalamin Quander said. Groups fume at Post office for stamping out cigarette Washington a pro smoking groups Are chagrined that the . Postal service is commemorating blues guitarist Robert Johnson minus his cigarette. The artist who prepared the new stamp issued saturday deleted the cigarette that appeared in the photo of Johnson used As a basis for the design. A citizens committee that advises the postal service on stamp designs had recommended the action a because they did no to want the Stamps to be perceived As promoting cigarettes a said Post office spokeswoman Monica hand. But Thomas Humber president of the pro smoking National smokers Alliance complained in a letter to postmaster general Marvin Runyon that the decision is a an affront to the More than 50 million americans who choose to  hand pointed out that there was no cigarette on a recent stamp honouring journalist Edward r. Murrow who was rarely seen without a smoke and that labor Leader George Meany was pictured without his Ever present Cigar. Johnson who was slain in 1938 at age 27, was among the jazz and blues greats being honoured in a set of Stamps the postal service was unveiling at the Mississippi Delta blues festival in Greenville. His image on the stamp is based on a photo by Stephen c. Lavere. The Stamps went on Safe saturday in Greenville and Are to be available across the rest of the nation monday. A others pictured on the Stamps Are a Rainey Bessie Smith Jimmy Rushing Mildred Bailey howling Wolf Muddy Waters and Billie Holiday. Threats prompt nuns to seek new Home for sexual exhibit i san Antonio a an Art gallery run by roman Catholic nuns is moving a provocative exhibit on sex and aids after receiving threats of violence. The exhibit a which includes flesh coloured sculptures of genitalia and a painting of an Angel having Intercourse at an altar a will move to another gallery which has yet to be selected artist Donell Hill said thursday. The Sisters of Charity of the incarnate word shut Down the exhibit tuesday one Day after it opened after hundreds called to complain and archbishop Patrick f. Mores declared he was a highly of fended insulted and  a both parties recognize that censorship is a Central Issue but agree that there Are larger issues involved. In Light of threats to the gallery the move is being made to ensure the safety of the Sisters who live on the premises a the artist and the gallery said in a statement. The gallery is next to the nuns North erhos use and retirement Center. Sister Alice Holden the gallery s director said she prayed before the Hexhi Ca went up and decided the work should be shown because a sexuality is a tremendous gift from