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