(CW: dot gov link lol) From George Washington to Anthony Whitting, 16 December 1792
1792 is 16 years after 1776, I assume he’s not president at this time. That’s what George Washington seceded from Britain for, so he could obsess over measuring wheat and telling his underlings to kill all but 1 or 2 of the Africans’ dogs—shit he probably coulda done either way. But now he answers to nobody
But anyway, I really saw this pbs article which tells similar dog stories about founding father slavers, but incredibly refers to the enslaved Africans as “African Americans”.
In what sense were Africans held captive in the US in 1792 “Americans”? I understand it’s a common way to refer to people in the contemporary US, but it’s fucking crazy to project that term into the past like that IMO. Extremely powerful ideology
Fun fact, Washington was a notoriously bad farmer whose farm had to be bailed out by rich friends multiple times. It probably would have helped if he let the slaves keep their dogs, because the dogs would scare off the wolves that keep eating his sheep.
Liberals get mad when I say he was the Trump of his generation.
Washington was 100% the Donald Trump of his generation. Failed upwards his entire life. He even hired a bounty hunter to hunt down a young slave girl who escaped from his house while he was president.
even has his own mara lago
I just the listened to the Dollop episode on her the other day. Really good.
Great episode. You always hear how he owned slaves, and it's always like it was just the standard of the time or he had inherited them or something.
Turns out he was a real dick to his slaves
Yeah, seems to be the pattern.
:amerikkka-clap: Capitalists destroying their own businesses due to evil ideology is as american as apple pie
when you r business plan is to yell at your slaves from africa "make land grow good"
All the bad unintended consequences of Mao killing the sparrows without any of the good intentions.
Lmao.