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George Washington and Slaves in the Executive Mansion

2007-03-27 , Alexander, Eleanor

George Washington, a slave owner, did not give a second thought to staffing the President’s House with human chattel from his Virginia plantation. Working in the Executive Mansion was better than working in the field, or even as an ordinary house slave. But two ran away to freedom.