Never Caught Project - George Washington
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- “Washington preferred to handle his private affairs with discretion and ‘to deceive’ the public if necessary” (Dunbar 67)."The president needed a solution to the problem of slaveholding in Philadelphia – one that would work for many years" (Dunbar 66).
- The Fugitive Slave Act, September 18 1850
- "It clothes any ruffian who may be commissioned to act in this new and infamous office of Slave-Catcher , with magisterial and judicial authority. 2. It commands and requires good citizens to aid in this heartless and brutal business, imposing the work of bloodhounds upon them. 3. It authorizes such kidnappers and rascals as may choose to do so, to arrest or seize persons without “due process of law.” 4. It jeopardizes the liberty of every colored person, by requiring merely a “ general description ,” and by casting out the evidence of the person arrested. 5. It seeks to annul the writ of Habeas Corpus, which tends to secure justice and liberty by delivering a person from false imprisonment, or by removing a case from one court to another. 6. It imposes excessive fines. 7. It denies the citizen a Jury Trial, where his liberty, and perhaps his life, is at stake."
- The Fugitive Slave Act
- "...Washington created an estate, based on the latest agricultural practice, that was also a set of plantation farms centred around the work of enslaved Africans. Slavery, then, was clearly a persistent part of Washington's life and career."- George Washington and the Problem of Slavery by Kenneth Morgan
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