Monday, April 30, 2012

Mt Vernon April 24 early stop

Ann is shown with George and Martha Washington and Martha's grandchildren (George's step grandchildren). George Washington may have been the father of the country but he had no biological children.

His marriage to Martha was, by all accounts, a good one but one of the problems was that Martha's possessions, including slaves, were not common property. Thus, although George, by some accounts, wanted to free all the slaves in his lifetime, he was legally unable to do so (in  his will he freed what he could and Martha freed the rest a year after George's death.

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