"At the time of George Washington’s death, the Mount Vernon estate’s enslaved population consisted of 318 people. Washington himself had been a slave owner for fifty-six years, beginning at eleven years of age when he inherited ten slaves from his deceased father. "
"Of the 318 slaves at Mount Vernon in 1799, 123 individuals were owned by George Washington and were stipulated in Washington's will to be freed upon his wife's death."
http://www.mountvernon.org/george-washington/slavery/washingtons-1799-will/
Ya see what I gotta argue with? :)
You’d think he would at least do the basic research. It took all of about 10 seconds to find the data from a reputable source.
I haven’t followed his posts but it’s usually South haters who try to rewrite the history of the founding generation. As the 1860 crowd well knew slavery was a very common institution and the vast majority of Presidents before Lincoln had been slave owners at some time in their life. The notable exceptions that I know of being the Adams family and Franklin Pierce.