...country, or send over their property, with a view to invest it, either in our funds, or in lands. — With respect to the other species of property, concerning...of it. — Were it not then, that I am principled agí selling negroes, as you would do cattle at a market, I would not, in twelve months from this date,...

...country, or send over their property, with a view to invest it, either in our funds, or in lands. — With respect to the other species of property, concerning...of it. — Were it not then, that I am principled ag'. selling negroes, as you would do cattle at a market, I would not, in twelve months from this date,...

...disposed to do it) can be defrayed." Later in the same year he wrote to General Alexander Spotswood: "With respect to the other species of property, concerning...to you that I do not like even to think, much less to talk of it. — However, as you have put the question, I shall, in a few words, give my ideas about...

...which you ask my opinion, I shall frankly declare to you that I do not like even to think, much less to talk of it. — However, as you have put the question, I shall, in a few words, give my ideas about it. — Were it not then, that I am principled agt. selling negroes, as you would cattle...

...require something where with to supply their places." Also in 1794 he wrote to Alexander Spótswood: "Were it not then, that I am principled against selling negroes, as you would do «ttle at a market, I would not in twelve months from this date, be possessed of one и a slave. I...

...highest as well as the lowest. James Oakes reports: "With respect to slavery, George Washington admitted, 'I shall frankly declare to you that I do not like even to think, much less talk, of it". The Ruling Race, (New York: Vintage Books, 1983), p. 120. on the other. There is a lot of me left to...

...he avoided taking an active role in the project. To a neighbor, Alexander Spottswood, he confided, "Were it not then, that I am principled against selling negroes, as you would cattle at a market, I would not in twelve months from this date, be possessed of one as a slave." Then...

...well disposed I may be to do it) can be defrayed."44 In the same year he told Alexander Spotswood: "With respect to the other species of property, concerning...ideas of it. Were it not then, that I am principled agt selling Negroes, as you would Cattle in the market, I would not, in twelve months from this date,...

...even as they fulfill basic desires" (1998, 120). Regarding slavery, George Washington confessed that "I shall frankly declare to you that I do not like even to think, much less talk, of it" (ibid., 120). As one Louisiana slave owner put it, "A gloomy cloud is hanging over our whole land"...

...treated as in general they are here, never could I rest in peace."39 In 1794, George Washington wrote, "Were it not then, that I am principled against selling negroes as you would do cattle in the market, I would not, in twelve months from this date, be possessed of one as a slave. ... I...