This is going on all over. It’s coordinated. There was an article last week about Montecello doing it, and now this, along with the president’s house site in Philadelphia. While touring the site, you will not hear or see anything about George Washington or John Adams.
I haven’t been to Mt. Vernon in awhile, but it would be a shame if they did not discuss the efforts Washington made to prepare his slaves for the freedom he would give them at his death. Every male on his plantation was given artisan training; he had three African foremen; he encouraged marriage with children and had family quarters; he respected their religious beliefs and allowed them to have their own pastors, etc. A portion of Washington’s slaves were not able to be sold because they were part of his wife’s inheritance and controlled by her nephew, who disagreed with the President about slavery. Mt. Vernon published a book on it and it is well worth reading.
Jefferson was far more restrictive in his plantation methods largely due to the tremendous debt he acquired from both his and his wife’s family upon their parents’ deaths. All of his slaves had to be sold after Jefferson’s death to pay it with the exception of a few skilled artisans he trained and Sally Hemming with her children.
“This is going on all over. It’s coordinated.”
Can’t decide whether to call them termites or locusts... Maybe both.
We’re letting them destroy the foundation of this country and we are not fumigating them!?