George Washington was president from 1789 -1797. Washington was around slavery his entire life, he becomes an actual slave owner when his father dies at age 11. He continues to acquire slaves into his adulthood.
He was 22 when he took over Mount Vernon, at the height of it's production his Mount Vernon estate had over 300 slaves in both his house and fields. Washington expected his slaves to work six days a week from sun up to sun down.
Throughout his life, Washington did nothing to abolish the institution of slavery, but upon his death he made a final gesture - in his will he decrees , that all his slaves be freed and provided with education only after the death of his wife. However, Martha is now worried that the slaves has a vested interest in her death, so she frees them early. www.loc.gov
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