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"Former slave dies at the age of 102" - Joshua Swartwort was born enslaved on Mount Vernon around 1800; his parents had been enslaved by George Washington (Public Press, Northumberland, Pa., November 21, 1902) According to this brief obituary, Samuel Anderson had been born in Africa in the 1740s ("Longevity" Baltimore Daily Commercial, February ...
George Washington, the first president, owned slaves, including while he was president. Andrew Jackson was an interregional slave trader until at least the War of 1812 . Zachary Taylor was the last one who owned slaves during his presidency, and Ulysses S. Grant was the last president to have owned a slave at some point in his life.
Hercules Posey (c. 1748 – May 15, 1812) was a slave owned by George Washington, at his plantation Mount Vernon in Virginia. "Uncle Harkless," as he was called by George Washington Parke Custis, served as chief cook at the Mansion House for many years.
A slave-owner himself, he dissented in several important freedom suits. [316] [317] Augustine Washington (1694–1743), father of George Washington. At the time of his death he owned 64 people. [318] George Washington (1732–1799), 1st President of the United States, who owned as many as 300 people. [319]
Ona Judge Staines (c. 1773 – February 25, 1848), also known as Oney Judge, was a slave owned by the Washington family, first at the family's plantation at Mount Vernon and later, after George Washington became president, at the President's House in Philadelphia, then the nation's capital city. [1]
William Lee (c. 1750 [1] – 1810 [2]) was an American slave and personal assistant of George Washington. He was the only one of Washington's slaves who was freed immediately by Washington's will. Because he served by Washington's side throughout the American Revolutionary War and was sometimes depicted next to Washington in paintings, Lee was ...
Samuel Washington, George Washington's younger brother, was buried in an unmarked grave at the cemetery at his Harewood estate (an interior view is pictured above) near Charles Town, West Virginia.
In April 1791, a massive slave insurgency rose violently against the plantation system, setting a precedent of resistance to slavery. In 1793, George Washington, owner of the Mount Vernon plantation, signed into law the first Fugitive Slave Act, guaranteeing a right for a slave master to recover an escaped slave. [7]