Washington owned slaves, yes. But little that they know that building a nation from the ground up is hard. He wanted to abolish slavery but not risk of destroying the nation's economy when the country itself is just in its infancy. Hell, look at his letters.
Exactly! People never mention that he freed all of his slaves by the time he died. It's very "money where your mouth is" to how much he was dedicated to abolitionism.
Washington owned slaves, yes. But little that they know that building a nation from the ground up is hard. He wanted to abolish slavery but not risk of destroying the nation's economy when the country itself is just in its infancy. Hell, look at his letters.
Exactly! People never mention that he freed all of his slaves by the time he died. It's very "money where your mouth is" to how much he was dedicated to abolitionism.