Digs at the Slave quarters at Mt. Vernon show rather good housing and even parts of guns. There is evidence he gave guns to his slaves! There was a trust thing going on. He freed all his slaves in his will—the only slave owning founding father to do so. The Revolutionary War Army that won the war and America’s Freedom had many African Americans in her ranks. The British offered freedom to any black slaves to leave their masters and join them—few did.
The writer said that the provision was in George’s will (to be released upon Martha’s death) but that Martha’s heirs got them.