army married marianna randolph. the sweetheart of robert e. lees as well as a great granddaughter of martha washington but this wasn't the only wedding that took place here in fact it wasn't the first wedding. the first wedding took place here ten years earlier when a woman named mariah carter married charles and what made that wedding important in the history of this place is that they were both enslaved here and mariah was believed to have been the daughter of the master and so she was an enslaved woman from some type of relationship that existed which george washington fathered a child by one of the enslaved women here. and this is forcing us in many ways to reexamine how we interpret the history of arlington. because here we have the story of slavery and this place represents the founding ideas of this country. this home built to honor george washington to celebrate the values and believes of the father of the country. the house itself built by slaves but then you have the family as well. the family relationship and in essence he had two d