George Washington and slavery | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2018-12-05

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George Washington and slavery


00:01:06 1 Washington's background
00:03:19 2 Revolutionary period
00:05:54 3 Postwar conditions
00:09:10 4 Presidency
00:13:01 5 Posthumous emancipation
00:15:23 6 Notable individuals enslaved by Washington
00:16:39 7 See also



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In U.S. history, the relationship between George Washington and slavery was a complex one in that, while he held people as slaves for virtually all of his life, he expressed reservations about the institution during his career.
During Washington's presidency, increasing abolitionist sentiments in the U.S. caused him to have misgivings about his own slave ownership. Though publicly Washington said little against the institution, privately he expressed a belief that slavery's end would ultimately be necessary for the nation's survival. He supported legislation both supporting slavery (e.g. the Fugitive Slave Act) and opposing it (e.g. the Northwest Ordinance).
Washington's will included manumission for the enslaved people he held upon the death of his widow Martha Washington. She freed her husband's slaves in January 1801, just over a year after his death. However, while she lived, Martha did not emancipate any of the slaves she herself owned.  When she died, on May 22, 1802, at the age of 70, all of those enslaved people went to the descendants of her first husband, Daniel Parke Custis.