MAKING OF A NEW NATION 1776 1800
THOMAS JEFFERSON
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Detailed explanation-1: -Continental Army George Washington initially opposed allowing free or enslaved Africans to fight in the Revolutionary War. He changed his mind when the British began offering freedom to those enslaved who fought against their patriot owners.
Detailed explanation-2: -“Determined to keep open a market where men should be bought and sold, ” the lost passage continues, “he has prostituted his negative for suppressing every legislative attempt to prohibit or restrain this execrable commerce.”
Detailed explanation-3: -George never owned slaves himself, and he gave his assent to the legislation that abolished the slave trade in England in 1807. By contrast, no fewer than 41 of the 56 signatories to the Declaration of Independence were slave owners.
Detailed explanation-4: -Throughout the 1780s and 1790s, Washington stated privately that he no longer wanted to be a slaveowner, that he did not want to buy and sell slaves or separate enslaved families, and that he supported a plan for gradual abolition in the United States.