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If you share such a weird story, maybe also provide a link so others can judge whether there is some substance?

• wahnfrieden 3y ago
  I won't be expected to exhaustively cite well-known history you can google in an instant, sorry. You find it weird to learn that Washington had slaves and used their teeth? Don't know what to say - it's what he was. I'm sorry if you got a Florida education :P
  • hutzlibu 3y ago
    There seems to be dispute about it: "As such, it remains unknown whether Washington personally used any teeth purchased from slaves or others" https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Washington%27s_teeth https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Washington%27s_teeth So the usual expectation is indeed, if you share uncommon facts, you share the link to those facts, so others can judge more easily, if your facts are facts at all.
    • wahnfrieden 3y ago
      There’s no dispute of him having healthy teeth extracted from slaves and having slaves, only on the detail of whether the dentures made from them were used in his own mouth or for someone else. It is also fact that his dentures included human teeth, but maybe not the specific 9 teeth we know he had taken from slaves > Records at Mount Vernon show that Washington bought teeth from slaves is what I said, had slaves and took their teeth, except that maybe he didn’t put the extracted teeth into his own mouth and used the slave teeth for some other purpose or a different person’s dentures, you’re correct on that and I thank you for sharing that detail.