What It Was Like To Be A Slave At George Washington's Mount Vernon
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Date: 2022-12-29
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NeTxGrl
Yet all of you benefit from modern day slavery and ignore it. Clothing, foods, technology everything you enjoy in life. Why aren't you people that go after a man from 3 centuries ago out actively fighting about what's going on today. It's because you're hypocrites that's why. Slavery has been part of the fabric of mankind since the beginning and it still continues. There were black slave owners in America from the 1600's to the civil war. There were black slave owners in the south that proclaimed their alligence to the south on the eve of the civil war. But that gets brushed under the rug. Native Americans had slaves that included black and white people, yet they've been romanticized by a lot of people. Funny how some groups get a pass. It's to bad that your ancestors got sold into slavery by their own, you never seem to be angry at them. Btw you can still buy a human being in some places in Africa today. This particular site is NOT your best resource when it comes to history. They are like the National Enquirer of history. People's knowledge of the founding fathers is poor. Until you've study more in depth you do not have a full understanding. Learn how to put things into historical context. Future generations will be judging us the same way you have judged people of history. If any of you were living and wealthy in the south during this time. you would have owned slaves. Yes. you. would.
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Yet all of you benefit from modern day slavery and ignore it. Clothing, foods, technology everything you enjoy in life. Why aren't you people that go after a man from 3 centuries ago out actively fighting about what's going on today. It's because you're hypocrites that's why. Slavery has been part of the fabric of mankind since the beginning and it still continues. There were black slave owners in America from the 1600's to the civil war. There were black slave owners in the south that proclaimed their alligence to the south on the eve of the civil war. But that gets brushed under the rug. Native Americans had slaves that included black and white people, yet they've been romanticized by a lot of people. Funny how some groups get a pass. It's to bad that your ancestors got sold into slavery by their own, you never seem to be angry at them. Btw you can still buy a human being in some places in Africa today. This particular site is NOT your best resource when it comes to history. They are like the National Enquirer of history. People's knowledge of the founding fathers is poor. Until you've study more in depth you do not have a full understanding. Learn how to put things into historical context. Future generations will be judging us the same way you have judged people of history. If any of you were living and wealthy in the south during this time. you would have owned slaves. Yes. you. would.
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leonard
I lived at Fort Belvoir the army base for almost 10 years. as a teenager I used to leave the shore of the army base and paddle my kayak up the Potomac river in front of Mount Vernon I have been to Mount Vernon more times than I can count. It is a beautiful place sitting on the front porch and looking over the Potomac is a view I will never forget. I went to Mount Vernon high school as a teenager which was not far from the house I even got to go under the house one time in the basement. I have actually walked around in the woods on the banks of Mount Vernon probably illegally but as a teenager I was curious I actually did find something in the woods and kept a souvenir I wont say what it was. Theres a rumor that the original skeleton key to the house is somewhere in the river I always hoped I could find it. It is a beautiful place but it is sad to think of all the slaves that died there. theres only a small monument for the slave burial ground I really want to go back there as a child I did not understand much about slavery but in my mid30s now I understand the price these people paid just to support our first president
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I lived at Fort Belvoir the army base for almost 10 years. as a teenager I used to leave the shore of the army base and paddle my kayak up the Potomac river in front of Mount Vernon I have been to Mount Vernon more times than I can count. It is a beautiful place sitting on the front porch and looking over the Potomac is a view I will never forget. I went to Mount Vernon high school as a teenager which was not far from the house I even got to go under the house one time in the basement. I have actually walked around in the woods on the banks of Mount Vernon probably illegally but as a teenager I was curious I actually did find something in the woods and kept a souvenir I wont say what it was. Theres a rumor that the original skeleton key to the house is somewhere in the river I always hoped I could find it. It is a beautiful place but it is sad to think of all the slaves that died there. theres only a small monument for the slave burial ground I really want to go back there as a child I did not understand much about slavery but in my mid30s now I understand the price these people paid just to support our first president
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k.
So for those that didnt know Ona Judge was the one slave that successfully left and evaded recapture by George Washington. She was inherited by Martha, so she technically didnt belong to George but Martha. She was to be given to one of Marthas granddaughter, so she escaped. George Washington would go as far as posting in a variety of newspapers to get her back. He wanted her back so bad, he wrote the Fugitive Slave Act in order to have her picked up in New Hampshire where she started a new life. She has a book called Ona Judge, and although it does have dramatization, its factual. It was one of my favorite reads in my Slave History course in college.
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So for those that didnt know Ona Judge was the one slave that successfully left and evaded recapture by George Washington. She was inherited by Martha, so she technically didnt belong to George but Martha. She was to be given to one of Marthas granddaughter, so she escaped. George Washington would go as far as posting in a variety of newspapers to get her back. He wanted her back so bad, he wrote the Fugitive Slave Act in order to have her picked up in New Hampshire where she started a new life. She has a book called Ona Judge, and although it does have dramatization, its factual. It was one of my favorite reads in my Slave History course in college.
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John
It's a shame how easily people assume control over others, believing it's their right to subject others to their will. We see it every day. Words on paper, contracts, make it all the more easy to do. Taxing wages is partial slavery. A person sentenced to prison for a victimless crime, working for their keep or an adopted child forced to work a farm. Many, if not most, have worked to barely scrape by, since before the dawn of history.
One might speculate that who but a slave owner, like Washington, would recognize the injustice of an English King assuming authority. One thief recognizes another thief. To a slave, a slave's master is King.
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It's a shame how easily people assume control over others, believing it's their right to subject others to their will. We see it every day. Words on paper, contracts, make it all the more easy to do. Taxing wages is partial slavery. A person sentenced to prison for a victimless crime, working for their keep or an adopted child forced to work a farm. Many, if not most, have worked to barely scrape by, since before the dawn of history.
One might speculate that who but a slave owner, like Washington, would recognize the injustice of an English King assuming authority. One thief recognizes another thief. To a slave, a slave's master is King.
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DaRyna
This sickens me. Why was this important history left out? Its personal to me because I come from slavery lineage. Its so hurtful to know that history taught in the United States is hidden. I agree this history is horrifying but it was a realistic reality of history that needs to be fully taught. Especially if the lineage of slave owners families are still major players of the government, major institutions and businesses. It explains this odd resistance, violence and controlling behaviors we have witnessed.
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This sickens me. Why was this important history left out? Its personal to me because I come from slavery lineage. Its so hurtful to know that history taught in the United States is hidden. I agree this history is horrifying but it was a realistic reality of history that needs to be fully taught. Especially if the lineage of slave owners families are still major players of the government, major institutions and businesses. It explains this odd resistance, violence and controlling behaviors we have witnessed.
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Gooner
Most slave owners were cunts and were cruel. I couldnt treat an animal the way they treated African Americans. The only thing I treat as bad are Inanimate objects that arent alive and did not feel such as food. Even pet fish I handle with care. Im told there were some nice slave owners. I dont know how true that is, I wasnt there to see but is someone that is nice compared to a tyrant really nice or is it just that the tyrant is much worse?
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Most slave owners were cunts and were cruel. I couldnt treat an animal the way they treated African Americans. The only thing I treat as bad are Inanimate objects that arent alive and did not feel such as food. Even pet fish I handle with care. Im told there were some nice slave owners. I dont know how true that is, I wasnt there to see but is someone that is nice compared to a tyrant really nice or is it just that the tyrant is much worse?
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Reality: George Washington Treat's His Slave's Nicely
In Southern Image Reality: George Washington Treat's His Slave's Worse
Southern Portrait's Of U. S. President's Whipping Slave's Are Fake
George Washington Never Whipped Them He Was Just Treating Them Respect And Nicely
Only Who Was A Naughty Slave And Whipped By George Washington Respectfully For Punishment
OCTOBER 20, 2022
( This Comment Is Against Racism )
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Reality: George Washington Treat's His Slave's Nicely
In Southern Image Reality: George Washington Treat's His Slave's Worse
Southern Portrait's Of U. S. President's Whipping Slave's Are Fake
George Washington Never Whipped Them He Was Just Treating Them Respect And Nicely
Only Who Was A Naughty Slave And Whipped By George Washington Respectfully For Punishment
OCTOBER 20, 2022
( This Comment Is Against Racism )
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George
I knew. he had slaves I didn't know how many and I didn't know he treated them that badly; didn't know he hung dogs; didn't know he worked them day and night 6 days. So yes my opinion on him has changed.
He did reside over the making of the Constitution, he did defeat the British empire as general, he did become the first president under the Constitution.
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I knew. he had slaves I didn't know how many and I didn't know he treated them that badly; didn't know he hung dogs; didn't know he worked them day and night 6 days. So yes my opinion on him has changed.
He did reside over the making of the Constitution, he did defeat the British empire as general, he did become the first president under the Constitution.
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Robert
For all the easy haters from 2022 that do not think with intellect but with 2022 feelings and decades of anti-western civilization endoctrination:
You all shall read the great G. Washigton will and ask yourself.
Would all the haters form 2022 would have done better than him 2 centuries ago?
Probably not
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For all the easy haters from 2022 that do not think with intellect but with 2022 feelings and decades of anti-western civilization endoctrination:
You all shall read the great G. Washigton will and ask yourself.
Would all the haters form 2022 would have done better than him 2 centuries ago?
Probably not
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VGL
It's always funny when do stuff like that in their will. Now that I've enjoyed every possible moment of my evil, I'll acknowledge that it's wrong, and let somebody else fix it after I'm dead. That will allow future generations to word my legacy much more favorably.
It is such cynical, cowardly move.
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It's always funny when do stuff like that in their will. Now that I've enjoyed every possible moment of my evil, I'll acknowledge that it's wrong, and let somebody else fix it after I'm dead. That will allow future generations to word my legacy much more favorably.
It is such cynical, cowardly move.
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Niska
it gives me food for thought, generations from now will naturally judge us for the morality of their time rather than our own. Equally the mistakes we are ignorant of now our children will become all too aware of. yet now we have the internet to immortalize anything and everything we have ever said.
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it gives me food for thought, generations from now will naturally judge us for the morality of their time rather than our own. Equally the mistakes we are ignorant of now our children will become all too aware of. yet now we have the internet to immortalize anything and everything we have ever said.
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King
Yea he was a founding father but his evil deeds still need to be taught. Why only teach of his hood unless its all about indoctrination. Were told that these people were damn near god status but truth is they were little devils. Each with that stain of slavery over their legacies.
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Yea he was a founding father but his evil deeds still need to be taught. Why only teach of his hood unless its all about indoctrination. Were told that these people were damn near god status but truth is they were little devils. Each with that stain of slavery over their legacies.
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Bernard
I grew up in Washington DC and I Thanked God that I wasnt born during that time. I grew up in the 60s and 70s and many of the white people were just as racist.
They tried to teach us that master George was a nice guy who loved his Black people, but we didnt fall for the BS.
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I grew up in Washington DC and I Thanked God that I wasnt born during that time. I grew up in the 60s and 70s and many of the white people were just as racist.
They tried to teach us that master George was a nice guy who loved his Black people, but we didnt fall for the BS.
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Eko
Its sad to think a human would consider owning a slave ever a ok thing to do, hard to give someone a pass to do so just because everyone owned slaves. There are numerous people in history that did the right thing when it mattered, regardless what their counterparts did.
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Its sad to think a human would consider owning a slave ever a ok thing to do, hard to give someone a pass to do so just because everyone owned slaves. There are numerous people in history that did the right thing when it mattered, regardless what their counterparts did.
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Rob
If you told George Washington and his contemporaries that in 2022, Millions of babies are killed in the womb in the name of convenience, they would be mortified and judge us all as demons! You can't judge one person without judging the times they lived in.
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If you told George Washington and his contemporaries that in 2022, Millions of babies are killed in the womb in the name of convenience, they would be mortified and judge us all as demons! You can't judge one person without judging the times they lived in.
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obi0914
Not a lot of people know this history (among other founding fathers) not because it's hidden but because they rather not. No, it doesn't change my Opinion of Geroge, he is still the greatest hero this country could ever have.
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Not a lot of people know this history (among other founding fathers) not because it's hidden but because they rather not. No, it doesn't change my Opinion of Geroge, he is still the greatest hero this country could ever have.
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Iron
No one is perfect. No country is perfect. Maybe true that what he did is brutal but that was the norm back then. But we wouldnt be living in a free and prosperous country right now if it wasnt for the events that occurred.
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No one is perfect. No country is perfect. Maybe true that what he did is brutal but that was the norm back then. But we wouldnt be living in a free and prosperous country right now if it wasnt for the events that occurred.
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kukuri007
Did they ever mention where they came from, who sold them to the whites, and that compared to the Caribbean, and especially Brazil, that by comparison, we hardly had/have any such history thereof? Probably not.
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Did they ever mention where they came from, who sold them to the whites, and that compared to the Caribbean, and especially Brazil, that by comparison, we hardly had/have any such history thereof? Probably not.
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Alvin
Our first President. I'll be Damn. Why don't this surprise me? Last damn time l'll spend a damn dollar. I mean what kind of person thinks that he or she can own another human? Well Judgement day will come.
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Our first President. I'll be Damn. Why don't this surprise me? Last damn time l'll spend a damn dollar. I mean what kind of person thinks that he or she can own another human? Well Judgement day will come.
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Michael
I understand why people owned slaves back then. But the extra misery they put on them I will never fathom. How do you torture people and feel nothing about it? Such a terrible chapter in our history.
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I understand why people owned slaves back then. But the extra misery they put on them I will never fathom. How do you torture people and feel nothing about it? Such a terrible chapter in our history.
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