George Washington
Was the: 1st President of the United States
In office: April 30, 1789 – March 4, 1797
George Washington
- Blakemore, Erin. “Did George Washington Really Free Mount Vernon’s Slaves?,” History
- Blakemore, Erin. “George Washington Used Legal Loopholes to Avoid Freeing His Slaves,” Smithsonian magazine, February 16, 2015.
- “A Decision to Free His Slaves,” Mount Vernon
- George Washington’s Last Will and Testament, 9 July 1799
- Transcript of “George Washington’s list of slaves at Mount Vernon, 1799”
- Washington’s Slave List, June 1799
- George Washington – Wikipedia
Slaves
- Ebony Elizabeth Thomas, James Joshua Coleman, and Lindsay R. Cicchino. “George Washington and Slavery: Going Beyond Picture Books to Teach about Our Flawed Founders,” Social Education, 2018 82(3), pp. 143–148, [National Council for the Social Studies].
- "Enslaved Persons of African Descent in the President's House,” The President’s House in Philadelphia
- LaBan, Craig. “A Birthday Shock from Washington’s Chef,“ Phila.gov.
- Mount Vernon enslaved-the real story [PDF]
- Tucker, Neely. “RUNAWAY! How George Washington, Other Slave Owners Used Newspapers to Hunt Escaped Slaves,” Library of Congress Blog, October 9, 2019.
- George Washington and slavery - Wikipedia
Black Family?
Individual Slaves
- Biographical Sketches of the Slaves Portrayed in I Ain’t No Three Fifths of a Person: Slavery and the Constitution & Hear My Story: The Enslaved Community at Mount Vernon. [PDF]
- Ona Judge Staines
- William "Billy" Lee
- Hercules Posey
Videos
- The Dark Side of George Washington: A Startling Look into America’s First Family (2017)
- Entangled Lives: Slavery at George Washington’s Mount Vernon
- George Washington’s Escaped Slave: Ona Judge
- George Washington’s Enslaved Chef: Hercules
- Lives Bound Together: Slavery at George Washington’s Mount Vernon
- Slave Descendant Stories
- The Slave Who Escaped George Washington
- The Story of Oney Judge and The Real George Washington
- Washington and Slavery