Vernon, studies the domestic life, foodways, and religious practices of the residents of George Washington's plantation, with a special interest in the slave community. Excerpted with permission ...

Reverend Peter Fontaine, Defense of Slavery in Virginia George Washington was a wealthy Virginia planter whose life story speaks of the paradoxical attitude of whites of his time toward slavery.

Both men were Northerners. Thomas Jefferson and George Washington hailed from Virginia and considered slavery an “evil” practice, but owned hundreds of them. George Washington left slaves for ...

Historian Joseph J. Ellis's introduction to Lamensdorf's historical novel%E2%80%94which recounts the life of George Washington through the eyes of his slave Billy Lee ...

George Washington was the first president of the ... But in his later years, he grew very much opposed to the concept of slavery, promoted its ultimate abolition and provided in his will that ...

President George Washington's personal copy of "Common Sense" by Thomas ... Among the collection is at least one work of anti-slavery philosophy, which Allison believes illustrates the conflicting ...

Of the 31 people identified in the painting “General George Washington Resigning ... into Congress’s relationship with slavery, The Washington Post analyzed more than 400 artworks in the ...