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You're right that he had too much money. After reading this, my sympathy is tempered. https://www.amazon.com/Never-Caught-Washingtons-Relentless-Pursuit/dp/150
by chasil 8y ago
You're right that he had too much money. After reading this, my sympathy is tempered.
https://www.amazon.com/Never-Caught-Washingtons-Relentless-Pursuit/dp/1501126393 https://www.amazon.com/Never-Caught-Washingtons-Relentless-P...
Washington had hundreds of slaves, yet he sent his family and political allies repeatedly against the single escapee, Ona Judge in Portsmouth, NH. The governor of New Hampshire surely regretted his involvement of his daughter. That was quite a story.
It bothers me about him. I think of the three-fifths compromise (which most people around me are astonished to grasp), and the lives of the founders make me cringe.
- stevenwoo 8y agoYes, I was angry when I learned about that in junior high or high school and the teachers usually wave that off with something like it was common back then, but there were plenty of others who did not have slaves.