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    There were several notable enslaved people of Mount Vernon, established by George Washington in Fairfax County, Virginia prior to the American Revolutionary...
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    Trail. List of residences of presidents of the United States List of enslaved people of Mount Vernon Mount Vernon Conference, 1785 Mount Vernon Mansion...
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    people are referred to as slaves, or as enslaved people. The following is a list of historical people who were enslaved at some point during their lives, in...
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    Mount Vernon is a city in Westchester County, New York, United States. It is an inner suburb of New York City, immediately to the north of the borough...
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    Christopher Sheels (category People from Mount Vernon, Virginia)
    There is no documentation of where he lived the rest of his life or when he died. List of enslaved people of Mount Vernon George Washington and slavery...
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    At the time of his death, there were 317 enslaved people at the Mount Vernon estate. Under his will, 123 of the people that he enslaved were to be manumitted...
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  • Hercules Posey (category People who were enslaved by George Washington)
    "offensive nature" of the picture book's illustrations. George Washington and slavery List of enslaved people of Mount Vernon List of enslaved people Any future...
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    William Lee (valet) (category Burials at Mount Vernon)
    Bennett portrays Lee in the 2020 miniseries Washington. List of enslaved people of Mount Vernon George Washington and slavery Samuel Osgood House – First...
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    Oney Judge (category People from Mount Vernon, Virginia)
    February 25, 1848) was an enslaved woman owned by the Washington family, first at the family's plantation at Mount Vernon and later, after George Washington...
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  • the story of her life within the complex community of people who inhabited Mount Vernon. There were 316 enslaved people living on Mount Vernon when George...
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    Nat Turner (category People enslaved in Virginia)
    11, 1831) was an enslaved African-American carpenter and preacher who led a four-day rebellion of both enslaved and free Black people in Southampton County...
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  • Emmett Till Antilynching Act Encyclopedia of the Harlem Renaissance (List of) Enslaved people of Mount Vernon Equal Suffrage League (Brooklyn, New York)...
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    up before moving to Mount Vernon in 1802.) List of enslaved people of Mount Vernon Thomas Posey, rumored to be illegitimate son of George Washington Abramson...
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    the course of George Washington's life, at least 577 enslaved people lived and worked at Mount Vernon. Morgan 2000, p. 279; Ellis 2004, p. 45. Morgan 2000...
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    who were born into legalized slavery or enslaved prior to the passage of the amendment are listed below. The list also contains the last known survivors...
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    317 enslaved people at Mount Vernon. 124 were owned outright by Washington, 40 were rented, and the remainder were dower slaves owned by the estate of Martha...
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    Slavery (redirect from Enslaved people)
    holds them in bondage. Enslavement is the placement of a person into slavery, and the person is called a slave or an enslaved person (see § Terminology)...
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    George Washington's teeth (category Body parts of individual people)
    together. Records at Mount Vernon show that Washington bought teeth from slaves. The poor in the Western world had sold teeth as a means of making money since...
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    William Costin (category People who were enslaved by George Washington)
    and black mourners, and a horseback processional. List of enslaved people of Mount Vernon United States (1894). "Costin v. Washington (Case No. 3,266)...
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  • Harry Washington (category People who were enslaved by George Washington)
    of other African Americans make up a portion of the Sierra Leone Creole people. George Washington and slavery List of enslaved people of Mount Vernon...
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    Deborah Squash (category People who were enslaved by George Washington)
    York. List of enslaved people of Mount Vernon George Washington and slavery Two of the women were terrorized when they were taken off of Mount Vernon. Deborah...
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    750 enslaved people from her husband, Isaac Franklin. Stair Agnew (1757–1821), land owner, judge and political figure in New Brunswick, he enslaved people...
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    North Carolina, enslaved people were entitled to be clothed and fed, and the murder of an enslaved person was punishable. But enslaved people could not testify...
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    President's House (Philadelphia) (category Presidency of George Washington)
    the house to George Washington. Washington brought nine enslaved Africans from Mount Vernon to work in his presidential household. The house also served...
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    Augustine Washington (category Mount Vernon)
    property, which was known as Mount Vernon by that time. At his death, Augustine Washington Sr. enslaved a total of 64 people who were assigned among the...
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    Soul food (category Cuisine of the Southern United States)
    the rations given to enslaved people by their enslavers. Enslaved people were typically given a peck of cornmeal and 3–4 pounds of pork per week, and those...
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  • Angela (slave) (category People enslaved in Virginia)
    twenty enslaved people sold there in exchange for food. Three or four days later, the Treasurer arrived with a second group of enslaved people; some were...
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    of the condition or race of their parents. Individuals who had been enslaved in Pennsylvania before the 1780 law came into effect remained enslaved for...
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    recorded enslaved people throughout Canadian history, of which 2,692 were Indigenous, enslaved mostly by French colonists, and 1,400 Black people enslaved mostly...
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  • the use of 15 to 20 enslaved workers. Owning enslaved people was a sign of wealth and status. Others with larger plantations or positions of influence...
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