It would be interesting to learn what happened to Washington's slaves
and their descendants.  Has such a study been done?

Henry Wiencek wrote:
>
> ..... Washington was not a racist, at least at the end of his
> life.  Washington came to believe that the apparent deficiencies in
> blacks were not innate but the result of their enslavement.  One very
> powerful indication of this is to be found in Washington's will, in
> which he freed his slaves and specified that the orphan children and the
> children of parents unwilling or incapable of providing for them should
> be bound out to masters and mistresses until age 25 for proper care and
> education in a trade.
--
James P. Lynch
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