• Storm [she/her]
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    2 months ago

    He's in good company. George Washington would send his slaves over state lines so they couldn't be freed by laws the duration of in the north.

    • emizeko [they/them]
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      2 months ago

      wait, what? did you maybe drop a word near the end, I'm having trouble understanding

      • Storm [she/her]
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        2 months ago

        So I forget the state, but where Washington had slaves passed a law that slaves who are residents for a set amount of years would be freed.

        But to get around the law, he'd bring his slaves to another state and reset the timer on their freedom.

        I'll link the specific details in about two hours

        • Ishmael [he/him]
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          2 months ago

          It was Pennsylvania, back when Philly was the capital. I heard about this on the Dollop podcast episode on Ona Judge, who escaped Washington during one of these trips to reset the freedom clock. The episode was based on this book:

          https://www.amrevmuseum.org/read-the-revolution/never-caught-2