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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
Netzi Montano

Christian Heritage Ministries: Articles & Interviews - 0 views

www.christianheritagemins.org/...resses%20and%20Legislation.htm

Abolition of Slavery HIS110-F09

shared by Netzi Montano on 18 Oct 09 - Cached
  • Netzi Montano on 18 Oct 09
     
    It talks about how the abolition of slavery was a great object of desire in these Colonies. It shows the perspective of Thomas Jefferson and George Mason.\n
mary seely

Thomas Jefferson - 0 views

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shared by mary seely on 22 Oct 09 - Cached
  • natural rights theory
  • "The God who gave us life," he wrote, "gave us liberty at the same time: the hand of force may destroy, but cannot disjoin them."
  • also deleted was a clause that censured the monarchy for imposing slavery upon America.
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  • the American western territories after 1800
  • Jefferson also proposed that slavery should be excluded from all of
  • he himself was a slaveowner, he believed that slavery was an evil that should not be permitted to spread. In 1784 the provision banning slavery was narrowly defeated
  • In his inaugural speech Jefferson held out an olive branch to his political enemies, inviting them to bury the partisanship of the past decade, to unite now as Americans.
  • debt. Simplicity and frugality became the hallmarks of Jefferson's administration
  • Jefferson wished to be remembered; they constituted a trilogy of interrelated causes: freedom from Britain, freedom of conscience, and freedom maintained through education. On July 4, 1826, the 50th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, Jefferson died at Monticello.
  • mary seely on 22 Oct 09
     
    biography
Barbara Van Meter

JSTOR: The American Historical Review, Vol. 15, No. 4 (Jul., 1910), pp. 781-799 - 0 views

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  • Barbara Van Meter on 28 Nov 09
     
    W. E. B. Du Bois's observations about the links between Americans' unwillingness to acknowledge the legacies of slavery and the shortcomings of formal equality in the post-Reconstruction era anticipate the obstacles to racial justice in the "post-civil ...
  • Barbara Van Meter on 28 Nov 09
     
    W. E. B. Du Bois's observations about the links between Americans' unwillingness to acknowledge the legacies of slavery and the shortcomings of formal equality in the post-Reconstruction era anticipate the obstacles to racial justice in the "post-civil ...
Melanie G

About.com: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part1/1p285.html - 1 views

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HIS110-FA09-African Americans and slavery

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  • Melanie G on 08 Oct 09
     
    Africans in America and Slavery
Sara Vinke

The African American : A Journey from Slavery to Freedom - 0 views

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shared by Sara Vinke on 19 Nov 09 - Cached
  • Sara Vinke on 19 Nov 09
     
    A much more indepth look at Slavery
Melanie G

George Mason's account of slavery - 1 views

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shared by Melanie G on 08 Oct 09 - Cached
  • Melanie G on 08 Oct 09
     
    I found this an interesting read about a white man's detailed account of his slaves. I do not know why but it was enlightnening to read his description of these people.
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