To: detective
Have these intellectually blind kids visit Mount Vernon (like I did last month) and tell them that he requested that his slaves be freed upon his passing. IIRC, that took place when Martha passed a few years after George did.
6 posted on
06/20/2019 1:36:20 PM PDT by
OttawaFreeper
("The Gardens was founded by men-sportsmen-who fought for their country" Conn Smythe, 1966)
To: OttawaFreeper
Isn’t Mount Vernon a wonderful and beautiful place?
We visited last year and enjoyed every second.
23 posted on
06/20/2019 1:50:22 PM PDT by
Jane Long
(Praise God, from whom ALL blessings flow.)
To: OttawaFreeper
that he requested that his slaves be freed upon his passing.
He did better than that. He provided pensions for his freed slaves. No one thinks about it now, but freeing a slave who has been dependent on you for years is a cruelty, unless you provide them some means of support.
36 posted on
06/20/2019 2:05:46 PM PDT by
hanamizu
To: OttawaFreeper
That is correct.
He did not like slaves being split up on farms, he wanted an end somehow to slavery, and he allowed as a whole blacks in the service of the AmRevWar.
59 posted on
06/20/2019 2:53:26 PM PDT by
the OlLine Rebel
(Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMVs)
To: OttawaFreeper
Read my post at item #72...
77 posted on
06/20/2019 5:02:17 PM PDT by
Stayfree
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