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"A few blocks from Byrd’s ice house, the Freedom House Museum is a National Historic Landmark that once served as the headquarters of the largest domestic slave trading firm in the United States; its proximity carries significance for Byrd, who is Black, and he frames his ownership of the nearby property as a shift from the labor of lifting blocks of ice to the agency of scooping cups of custard and holding property near a site with a difficult history." - Gabe Hiatt