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To: Bon of Babble

My wife and I toured Mount Vernon a few years ago. In a 20 minute tour, it was mentioned about a dozen times that George Washington had enslaved people.


4 posted on 07/04/2026 7:47:27 AM PDT by Fair Paul
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To: Fair Paul

Ditto for just about anything in the South these days.

We took a city tour in Charleston, SC, recently and it was all about slavery - same when we toured beautiful old plantations in Louisiana - all about slavery.


5 posted on 07/04/2026 7:57:30 AM PDT by Bon of Babble (You Say You Want a Revolution?)
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To: Fair Paul

Spoken by the baby-killing hypocrites.


8 posted on 07/04/2026 8:04:56 AM PDT by Jim W N (MAGA "by restoring the Gospel of the Grace of Christ (Jude 3) and our Free Constitutional Republic!)
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To: Fair Paul

Same with Monticello. Tours there speak extensively about Jefferson’s involvment with slavery.


11 posted on 07/04/2026 8:10:54 AM PDT by dowcaet
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To: Fair Paul
My wife and I toured Mount Vernon a few years ago. In a 20 minute tour, it was mentioned about a dozen times that George Washington had enslaved people.

I visited the home of Cassius Clay, cousin of the more famous Henry Clay, a few years ago. It was near Halloween and it was supposed to be a "ghost tale night". I called it the "Let's Hate Cassius Clay Night" because they had almost nothing about spooky ghost stories and lots about Clay owning some slaves.

14 posted on 07/04/2026 8:23:24 AM PDT by libertylover (The HBM (Has Been Media) is almost all AGENDA-DRIVEN and HATE-DRIVEN, not-truth driven)
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To: Fair Paul

RE: it was mentioned about a dozen times that George Washington had enslaved people.

Did they mentioned the fact that George Washington freed the slaves that he owned upon his death, according to his 1799 will?

Did they mention that many formerly enslaved workers, such as Sambo Anderson (a carpenter) and Jim Mitchell, remained working at Mount Vernon or returned to Washington’s estate as paid employees in the following years?

If not, they’re not telling the full story.


18 posted on 07/04/2026 9:28:34 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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