He also would not sell a slave who did not want to be sold. He would not break up families. Eventually, his slaves became a liability to him because he was not involved in trading them, and as they kept multiplying, he had more mouths to feed and clothe.
Sure, before the Wikipedia editors change it back. But at least the screenshots can live forever.
Wow — can I write the biography about MLK?
A slave owner who agonized over freeing his slaves.
He really wanted to do it. But he was afraid that they were unprepared to make their own way in the world and might starve.
Towards the end they were more of a financial burden on him than an asset.
Wikipedia gets worse and worse.
For common topics, it gets dominated by the Leftist mob
For more abstruse topics, like philosophy, it seems to get dominated by very narrow academics who take information in their own particular and bizarre descriptions.
I thought his will liberated his slaves on his own death, not Martha’s (Martha iirc outlived George by 4 years).
So when is the Evergreen State going to officially change its name?
Outrageous that the first words about Georg Washington on his Wiki is “slave owner”.
But when you go back in history, almost any Roman citizen of means had a slave or two.
The Julius Caesar wikipedia entry says nothing about his slaves. But several paragraphs down the page it casually mentions that he 1 million people from Gaul slaves.
Slavery was an accepted way of life for centuries. Automation and technology changed that.
Trump was right. We can’t live as a nation with political correctness.
Note that out of 8 references, only 8 are actually linked to a accessible page.