“Erica Armstrong Dunbar’s impeccably researched, masterfully written, and critically acclaimed work tells the true story of how one woman risked everything for her freedom from one of America’s most famous founding fathers,” said Lisa Ellis, Managing Partner of Provenance Ventures. Every six months he sent the slaves back down south just as the clock was about to expire.
Rather than comply, Washington decided to circumvent the law. As the President grew accustomed to Northern ways, there was one change he could not abide: Pennsylvania law required enslaved people be set free after six months of residency in the state. In setting up his households in both cities, he brought along nine slaves, including a very young Judge.
Fox Tells Whoopi Goldberg He Regrets Turning Down 'Ghost' Role & The Chance To Work With HerĪfter George Washington was elected president, following the Revolutionary War, he reluctantly left behind his beloved Mount Vernon to serve in the nation’s capital of New York City, which five years later after the Paris Treaty moved to Philadelphia, both temporary homes of the young nation’s capital.
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