I've read a lot about George Washington over the years. Definitely a man of his era, no better. In military and business dealings, he could often be cruel, capricious, violent and even murderous. It was also a much more chaotic time in history than we modern people often recognize.
That was the very same question Washington asked himself. You can learn more on our website: www.mountvernon.org/george-washington/slavery/washingtons-changing-views-on-slavery/
@@mountvernon omg... Thank you so very much for this, I never knew he thought this. I have to say, it makes me feel a hell of a lot better, I can't explain why it effects me so deeply, but it just does❤️❤️
America inherited Slavery from the British, the founding father's knew they could not outlaw Slavery right away, or the new country would fall apart, which is why they putting specific wording into the Constitution that would one day abolish Slavery.
It might be pointed out that Washington wrote a childhood friend he employed that six days of work were expected. Anything less and the man was considered stealing from Washington.
He was a military man and that's still the thinking of the military today. I was in the Navy and underway, everyday is a Monday, no days off until the next port which could be over a month.
Who wrote the script for this video? The narrator seems to forget that slaves were often beaten and abused, both physically, sexually, and mentally by overseers, and on the direction of the slave owners. Mentioning passive and non passive rebellion suggests a reality that comes across almost as if Washington was a “good” slave owner. Nope, he owned people, separated families, etc. I think slave masters often had inaccurate expectations of what work underfed and inhumanely treated people can achieve. Likely due to not having to do the same backbreaking work on meager rations themselves.
Brie’s Thoughts Washington did not like separating slave families; in fact, this is supposedly why he did not free his slaves while he was living. In Virginia, the law stated that upon immediate freedom of a person’s slave(s), the slave(s) must leave the state. In addition, many of the Washington’s slaves did not belong to them, but to Mrs. Washington’s previous husband’s family, so could not be freed by the Washingtons. Mrs.Washington had brought these slaves with her when she married Mr. Washington. The Washingtons were fair and good to their slaves, for that time. I know it is natural to want to vilify everyone that owned slaves; however, there were people, during slavery, that were good to their slaves; of course, this still did not make slavery right. And our country fought a civil war over the right to have slaves, or not have slaves. Thank goodness The North won. On an aside, I find it interesting that one of the reasons Lincoln despised slavery was because when he was a young man, his father rented him out to a neighbor to work, and Lincoln had to give all the money he earned to his father.
@Lavern Coleman...I felt the same way...when they said corporal punishment...I was thinking you mean to say they were beaten inhumanely and whipped until they drew blood but I guess that would have been too real
Historians you hear are going off primary sources. Now, you made an assertion. Please tell us what was sugar coated and then cite your sources please. BTW, they have no motive to sugar coat anything. They just tell the story. Good or bad.
Montagnard indigenous worked for Vietnamese government rice field we didn’t get pay also we didn’t know we were slave , many young girls, men have a fever , stomach die .
The women who saved Mount Vernon is another great one. My class loved that one and wanted to hear it again. I love hearing about Mount Vernon and it’s history.
Just listen to the narrators who were never enslaved as human beings just rant on monotonously as if this was /is not a human tragedy but just a way of life incredible how they can spin their own narrative to make mockery of a people whose land and history nation identity family language names and way of life were stripped from them but it was prophesied they would go into captivity for forsaking their God Deuteronomy 28 Return O Israel
You have to pay your taxes. Washington in fact sent in militia when people ignored paying taxes: www.mountvernon.org/library/digitalhistory/digital-encyclopedia/article/whiskey-rebellion/
@@davidnmorrismorrisactor7117I suggest you read GW's will. It forbade *any* sale of his slaves and that *his* slaves (as opposed to the Curtis trust slaves) be manumitted after Martha's death. He also provided for elderly slaves- his estate was still making payments until 1830. In the last 20 years of his life GW was a lukewarm abolitionist.
So you think he should have just purchased the property, so that the slaves families would have been split up and sold? He bought the property with the slaves so that the families would stay together.
@@simonmaguire5250 Well that's a great idea, except then he wouldn't compete with the other farms and would have gone bankrupt. George Washington was a great man, but he was still just a man. "ALL HAVE SINNED (that means all ppl, free or not) and fallen short of the glory of God."
This sounds way to nice sorry but slave life was way harder slaves ware often sick and didn’t get very old they were Aldo used for inhuman medical experiments 3:41- 3:47 Until they were sold off
This was very interesting. I usually am annoyed with slave talk but this is very educational. It’s funny, free healthcare, housing, meals, etc. Except for the six day work week, nothing has really changed in 200 years.
