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Netzi Montano

Albany Plan of Union (1754) - 0 views

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Albany Plan of Union (1754) HIS110-F09

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  • Netzi Montano on 18 Oct 09
     
    Talks about the plan of union drafted by Benjamin Franklin in 1754
Sharon Gilbride

EDSITEment - Lesson Plan - 1 views

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  • Sharon Gilbride on 15 Dec 09
     
    EDSITEment, the best of the humanities on the web
mary seely

George Washington --Abolitionist! - 0 views

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  • slavery haunted the hearts and minds of virtually all of the Founding Fathers.
  • Yet slavery was repugnant to the nation's president. He disliked the inhumanity of the system. Many families had to be split up; often married men lived far from their wives and children. Supervision frequently resulted in corporal punishment and sickness and death were prevalent.
  • In his journals, Washington also discussed attention to medical care. Overseers were "to be particularly attentive to the Negros in their sickness." Such treatment, Washington commented, was not always widespread. Wealthy slaveowners ... "were not always as kind," he lamented, "and as attentive to their wants and usage as they ought to be."
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  • Washington became increasingly critical of slavery as an economic system
  • As early as 1786, Washington had determined that the only acceptable solution would be emancipation. "There is not a man living who wishes more sincerely than I do, to see a plan adopted for the abolition of [slavery]," he wrote to Robert Morris. While he took no steps politically, he began to take steps personally
  • "liberate a certain species of property which I possess, very repugnantly to my own feelings." Unfortunately, there were no acceptable offers to lease the farms.
  • What was revolutionary, however, were the next few lines. In them, George Washington provided that all of his slaves be freed and that they be supported financially or trained for a period of years for "some useful occupation" to assure their preparedness for life as free men and women.
  • For Washington, however, it was once again evidence of the virtuous precedent he was bound and determined to set. The new American republic could survive only if it relied upon the virtuous and full participation of all its citizens. For Washington, that could mean no less than the abolition of slavery. He would take the first step.
  • Alone of the Founding Fathers, Washington freed his slaves
  • mary seely on 22 Oct 09
     
    washington the abolitionist
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