George Washington And Slavery
The history of George Washington and slavery reflects George Washington, Washington's changing attitude toward slavery, enslavement. The preeminent Founding Fathers of the United States, Founding Father of the United States and a inheritance, hereditary slaveowner, Washington became increasingly uneasy with it. Slavery was then a longstanding institution dating back over a century History of slavery in Virginia, in Virginia where he lived; it was also longstanding Slavery in the colonial history of the United States, in other American colonies and History of slavery, in world history. Washington's will provided for the immediate emancipation of one of his slaves, and additionally required his remaining 123 slaves to serve his wife and be freed no later than her death, so they ultimately became free one year after his death. Black slavery was ingrained in the economic and social fabric of the Colony of Virginia where Washington grew up. A third generation slave-owner, at 11 ye ...
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George Washington By John Trumbull (1780)
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