How to visit George Washington's Mount Vernon 

Yes, July 16

Been several times very nice tour. The Christmas tour where you go to Washington's bedroom is a nice touch.

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This was last summer!

Slavery has been the norm throughout human history, not the exception. Many famous and admired people in history owned and sold slaves. If any of us were alive back then and came from a wealthy family especially a wealthy planter family we would have been slave owners. There were prosperous black slave owners in America. The first slave owner in the colonies in the 1600's was a black man. Native Americans had slaves. Today the corporations do it for us, modern day slavery. Tens of millions of adults and children are coerced into forced labor using physical and psychological means such as beatings, rape and death. These people make many of the products we use on a daily basis. Please keep in mind Washington was born in a different time. He was brought up in this lifestyle inheriting slaves at 11, after his father died. Over his lifetime his feelings about slavery changed. He eventually stopped buying and selling slaves, he stopped separating family's ect. In his will he freed them and left them money that lasted his former slaves until the 1840's. That was unheard of at the time. Also, most of the slaves on Mt Vernon were dower slaves. Meaning they were slaves from Martha Washington's first husbands estate. He could not free them.