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   Owning black people to do all the work was the American way for our freedom   
   loving white Christian Founders and with MAGA being 98% white, the   
   tradition continues.   When are Red States bringing back segregated toilets   
   and drinking fountains?   
      
   IBERTY HYPOCRITES: THE FOUNDING FATHERS WHO OWNED SLAVES   
      
   © History Oasis   
      
   "There is not a man living who wishes more sincerely than I do, to see a   
   plan adopted for the abolition of it. But there is only one proper and   
   effectual mode by which it can be accomplished, and that is by Legislative   
   authority: and this, as far as my suffrage will go, shall never be wanting.   
   "   
      
   —George Washington, letter to Robert Morris, 1786   
      
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   Paradoxically, the same founding fathers of the United States who   
   championed liberty were also famous slaveholders as well.   
      
   This list of founding fathers with enslaved people might shock you.   
      
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   GEORGE WASHINGTON   
   portrait of the founder George Washington who owned slaves   
   © History Oasis / Created via Midjourney   
      
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   George Washington was the first President of the US and a lifelong enslaver   
   who held hundreds of enslaved people at his Mount Vernon estate.   
      
   He implemented a system of rotating enslaved people between Mount Vernon   
   and Philadelphia. This was to exploit a loophole in a Pennsylvania law to   
   keep slaves indefinity.   
      
   As President, he signed the Fugitive Slave Act of 1793. The law made it a   
   federal crime to help a formerly enslaved person.   
      
   One of his slaves, Ona Judge, successfully escaped to New Hampshire in   
   1796.   
      
   At his death, he owned 317 enslaved people. However, he became   
   uncomfortable with slavery later in life without speaking publicly about   
   it.   
      
   In his will, he ordered all his slaves to be released when Martha died.   
      
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   THOMAS JEFFERSON   
   portrait of Thomas Jefferson   
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   Thomas Jefferson authored the Declaration of Independence. He also owned   
   hundreds of enslaved people.   
      
   He had a complex relationship with one of his slaves, Sally Hemings. Who   
   bore several of his children.   
      
   It is said that Jefferson wanted to get rid of his slaves but could not. As   
   he was deeply in debt.   
      
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   JAMES MADISON   
   portrait of James Madison   
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   James Madison, author of the Federalist Papers, owned 100s of enslaved   
   people that he inherited from his father.   
      
   He lived with his slaves at his Montpelier plantation.   
      
   Madison's stance on slavery remained ambiguous. He was known for his public   
   silence and inaction on the topic.   
      
   Madison did not free his slaves like other founding fathers when he died.   
   His wife sold some of his slaves to pay off some debts.   
      
   Paul Jennings was his best-known slave and even wrote a memoir of his time   
   in the White House.   
      
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   JAMES MONROE   
   portrait of James Monroe   
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   James Monroe, the fifth President of the United States, owned many enslaved   
   people.   
      
   Simultaneously, he supported efforts to repatriate freed slaves to Africa.   
      
   He helped create the American Colonization Society, which led to   
   establishing Liberia and its capital. Monrovia is named in his honor.   
      
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   BENJAMIN FRANKLIN   
   portrait of Benjamin Franklin   
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   In his early days, Benjamin Franklin had two slaves.   
      
   However, he would radically change his opinion later in life. He eventually   
   freed his slaves and became a famous abolitionist.   
      
   He became the President of the Pennsylvania Society for Promoting the   
   Abolition of Slavery. He would fight for the freedom of slaves until he   
   died.   
      
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   JOHN HANCOCK   
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   John Hancock was a founder who owned two slaves. Records show their names   
   were Molly and Cato.   
      
   In 1768, Hancock advertised for the sale of a slave in the Boston Gazette.   
      
   Hancock eventually changed his position on the subject and wanted the   
   abolition of slavery in Massachusetts.   
      
   In 1777, Hancock signed a bill that banned the importation of slaves into   
   Massachusetts. It did not become law.   
      
   Hancock freed his slave, Cato, in 1781.   
      
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   PATRICK HENRY   
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   Patrick Henry said, "Give me liberty or give me death, " in his famous   
   speech, but he owned up to 90 slaves.   
      
   He later would call slavery repugnant in a letter from 1773.   
      
   Despite the letter, he never actually freed his slaves. As he needed them   
   to make a living.   
      
   In his will, he demanded that some of his slaves should be freed at his   
   death.   
      
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   GEORGE MASON   
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   George Mason owned a large slave plantation in Gunston Hall in Fairfax   
   County, Virginia, where he had around 100 slaves until his death in 1792.   
      
   Mason became outspoken against the slave trade and the institution of   
   slavery itself. Claiming that slavery was a "slow poison" infecting the   
   colonies. At the Constitutional Convention in 1787, Mason argued against   
   allowing the slave trade to continue.   
      
   In his writing, he talked about the moral dilemma of owning slaves. He   
   claimed he couldn't get rid of them for economic reasons.   
      
   Mason refused to sign the US Constitution. He would only sign it if it   
   called for the abolition of slavery.   
      
   Mason never freed his own slaves during his lifetime or in his will.   
      
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