“George Washington was a third-generation slaveholder, who with Martha owned more than three hundred slaves. He prized them particularly; as a signal of wealth in his world, such property exceeded gold and real estate. he had once wrote to a fellow planter urging that he send him strong slaves in good health who were not ‘addicted to running away.’ At the end of the Revolutionary War, he cordoned the beaches with soldiers to prevent runaway slaves who had fought with the British from leaving America with the redcoats.” -From, “The Debt: What America Owes To Blacks” By: Randall Robinson
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