One for two, Washington, though a slave-owner, was not pro-slavery -- he was born into the system and struggled throughout his life to find a solution.
He was clearly a traitor to Britain. The greatest of patriots to America. Which side is right? The Declaration of Independence lays out the moral and logical case for the American position more eloquently than I can.
Thanks for a reasoned response!
Just for the record, I’m not criticizing Washington. My point was that this obsessive Political Correctness is going to kill us as a nation. You may well be correct to argue that Washington was a slave owner, as opposed to being pro-slavery, but that won’t make a dime’s worth of difference to the PC crowd. The fact that he didn’t free every slave in America and then give them all voting rights will render him just as sub-human and evil as Jefferson Davis, in their minds.