After months of conflict, the foundation that runs President James Madison’s Virginia estate agreed on Monday to accept 11 people recommended by a group of descendants of enslaved people who worked there to its governing board.
In a statement on Monday, the Montpelier Foundation, which runs the 2,650-acre estate outside Orange, Va., that belonged to the nation’s fourth president, said: “This historic and unprecedented vote by the board of directors means that the foundation has achieved its long-sought goal of parity on the Board for descendants of Montpelier’s formerly enslaved population.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/16/us/montpelier-estate-board-descendants-enslaved.html
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