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What Florida gets wrong about George Washington and the benefits he received from enslaving Black people

  • Written by Calvin Schermerhorn, Professor of History, Arizona State University
imageIn this 1853 painting, George Washington stands among Black field workers.Buyenlarge/Getty Images

If there was anyone who knew the rewards of slavery, it was George Washington.

Over a period of about 50 years, the nation’s first president enslaved about 577 Black Americans, starting when he was 11 years old.

One of them was a Black man named...

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