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把Washington和Jefferson推倒后，美国是不是就得改国号了？！ United States of
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George Washington Used Legal Loopholes to Avoid Freeing His Slaves
One of his slaves fled to New Hampshire to escape becoming a wedding present
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Slave Cabin
A slave cabin at Mount Vernon, George Washington's estate in Virginia. (John
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By Erin Blakemore
SMITHSONIAN.COM
FEBRUARY 16, 2015
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America’s first president was wealthy and powerful, and his
possessions
included false teeth, tricorne hats and nearly 150 slaves. George Washington
owned slaves and relied on their labor—and, as Erica Armstrong Dunbar
reports for the New York Times, he used legal loopholes to avoid freeing
them even as Northern states worked to abolish slavery.
Washington inherited his first ten slaves when he was just ten years old,
Dunbar reports. In the days before Washington, D.C., was the nation’s
capital, the new president lived in New York and Pennsylvania, states that
were gradually abolishing slavery. But Washington wasn’t eager to get
rid
of his own slaves, says Dunbar, even when he moved to Philadelphia.
In 1780, Pennsylvania passed the Gradual Abolition Act, a law that freed
people after they turned 28 and that automatically freed any slave who moved
to the state and lived there for more than six months. Dunbar tells the
story of how Washington got around it:
Washington developed a canny strategy that would protect his property and
allow him to avoid public scrutiny. Every six months, the president’s
slaves would travel back to Mount Vernon or would journey with Mrs.
Washington outside the boundaries of the state. In essence, the Washingtons
reset the clock. The president was secretive when writing to his personal
secretary Tobias Lear in 1791: “I request that these Sentiments and
this
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