George Washington Spent Years Looking for Escaped Slave
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- Опубликовано: 16 фев 2020
- “We've tended to be a little uncomfortable talking about George Washington and slavery,” historian Erica Armstrong Dunbar told InsideEdition.com. At the time of the founding father’s death in 1799, “there were nearly 300 enslaved people living at Mount Vernon,” she said. One formerly enslaved person who didn’t live there was Ona Judge. Judge escaped captivity in 1796. Until nearly the end of his life, Washington tried to recapture her. #InsideEdition
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“She was never truly free, simply never caught” damn..
I felt that
@@will.buckley me too!
@@will.buckleyAbove all she waa clever in her escape and strategized her routes!!What a remarkable woman!!Credits to her and those who helped her find safety!!George Washington had to kick rocks!!Mighr as well!!😊
"120 people realized they'd be free once Martha died."
"Tony get the boulder."
Noah get the boat
Hanz get the luger
MARTHA! WHY DID YOU SAY THAT NAME???
Fun fact: Martha set the slaves George owned free a year after his death because they allegedly started a fire and tried to poison her
Oh no Good. 😂😂😂😂
The darker part of American history that isn’t taught in schools.
Kali K 🙄
vDARKICEv this is literally taught in African American history class which is mandatory. Do you think before you speak?
What did Kali K say?
Vince Unfortunately my school didn’t have just a African American history class. I found out more stuff through independent study on my own time. Thank you.
History teacher here from the U.K.- it’s taught in depth in British schools, I can’t imagine such a huge part of American history is ignored? (Or am I being totally naive?)
“She was never truly free, simply never caught” - This line hit hard because my great great grandfather and his wife and children were targeted by the Klu Klux Klan. They were on his property, ready to torch it down when he shot 3 of them down and sent the rest fleeing. Mind you, he had to spend the rest of his life on the run but the action was still amazing on it’s own
DBZ Villain good for him, I hope those gun shots hurt badly before they died. He’s a hero for standing up against the evil that is the KKK.
@Joe Al for what?
Joe Al excuse you?
Joe Al maybe you should go back to England
Thats why i support the second amendment
And as his punishment for such an atrocity, he'll never be worth more than a $1...
@Victoria Harris what's mean by your comment
Fire N Rosez 😂 😂
Crood dude lmao it’s a joke😂
@Crood it..it was a joke
Punishment for what atrocity?
everyone wants to talk about the good things he did but not the bad
Devonte johnson stares at Thomas Jefferson
Because he did countless good things...i can't think of a single bad or immoral thing that he did.
James Heath nobody alive today knows everything he did
@Darren Scott yeah
😂
"120 people knew that they would be free once Martha died." BOB GET THE GUN!
Football Fan 🤣
I would be cooked her the best dinner ever and made sure no guest or family was gonna be in town and buried her in an unmarked grave and the house would be ours for a min until we collected enough in the house to take with us for profit and left.
Every historical figure has a skeleton in their closet.
He has 120.
@@juicyslifeepraisethelord4093 actually 300, if you include his wives.
I understand not judging the past with today's values but that also means you have to be sure as h-- to report what actually happened. Whitewashing is also a form of today's values.
make me think he was petty asf 50 years looking for a slave you gave away man hatred and evil knows no ends
Every now and then it hits me that people actually owned other people and that was considered “normal” back then.
There is more slaves today then back then
Yeah it is horrible to think about how people were locked up and forced to work all day, every day. No pay, just living to serve. Puts things into perspective a lot for me.
xlxcrossxlx Exactly. And on top of all of that, the slaves didn’t know anything either because they were intentionally kept from learning anything. As humans we came to a all time low back then
I bet you would do that too if you were born at that time.
You shall overcome!
All truths need to be taught, good and bad
Yes.
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The fact that Washington felt like it was necessary to hunt just one runaway slave for the rest of his life speaks volumes of his character.
I mean, at least he became anti-slavery after that. I bet no white slave owner can do that.
@@nostalgicfantasy7938 Wrong, he didn't become "anti-slavery" he just questioned whether it was really ok to own other people, but he still kept slaves. If he was really anti-slavery he would've emancipated all 120 of his slaves as soon as Ona ran away.
@@controlman7490 Don't pretend like you're enlightened just because you're fortunate enough to live in the modern day. If you would lived during that time I doubt you would have even come close to questioning it.
@@kennethraymondmoore there were people who disagreed and didn't own slaves among the enlightened ones John Adams
He probably did that so he could k*ll her which is horrifying
He whipped, beat, and separated people from their families as punishment. Washington also relentlessly pursued escaped slaves and circumvented laws that would allow his enslaved workers freedom if they did manage to escape to neighboring states
They were not slaves ...They were Enslaved
Edie slaves
@@delancey3181 do you know the difference? lmao
And when they escaped, they were not "runaways" or "fugitives". They were freedom seekers! PS - My daughter is a linguist, and I think she would like you. Keep speaking out
Abe Lincoln : I am gonna end this slavery's whole career
Except that Abraham Lincoln ran on the platform of continuing slavery. He didn't care about the slaves, and if he could have preserved the union without freeing the slaves he would have.
Gacha Fox warrior At first Lincoln didn’t want to end it only stop the spread of slavery, because he only wanted to preserve the Union. But by the end of the war his mission changed and he was fixed on abolishing completely in the Union.
James Health your exactly right
Fernando Castaneda Good to see someone paid attention in class.
@Gacha Fox warrior slaves were actually freed at the end of the war and the document that Abraham made didn't actually freed slaves
This should be a film
This just contradicts how in the constitution it says “all men were created equal”.
anthony 12 “men”
They meant "white, rich land owning, males" and no one else
Key word is men :/
Sherekhan420 U but it still says just men dissent specify
Kotouraオタク he and a lot of other political leaders at the time owned male and female slaves
Everyone wants to talk about all the good things he did but not the bad.....
just stop please
You don't wanna know the bad, trust me...these guys were sick
@@samathapolisco4658 Why?
“She was truly free, never caught”-damnnnn
RA4gjack Jack *never
*just
Fun Fact: My great aunt is really into our family history; she has a tree put together for it and everything. And in her digging, she found out that our family is related to George Washington!!! Not directly; hes one of my Great + Uncles. Which I think is really cool!!!
I would never want to be related to George Washington. I would also never want to be a descendant of a pilgrim who came over on the Mayflower.
@@ComesTheLight ...weird flex, but ok bro. you be you
".... Towards the end of his life began to reaccess enslavement"
How convenient. You have reaped all the benefits that can be reaped from labour without pay. You have enjoyed your youth and amassed a fortune to see you through the rest of your days on earth. You suddenly grow a conscience because your Christian beliefs scare you into deceiving yourself that "I can make peace with God now so if I die I go to heaven, after having fully enjoyed my life at the expense of someone else's".
Round of applause please!!!
White washing of history
@@coachfuzz524 yeah now yall trying to make everything black, how the tables have turned
My thoughts exactly. Some of the historians at Mt. Vernon praise George for renouncing slavery at the end of his life...after he had accrued massive wealth by using and abusing hundreds of enslaved people for his entire life. Well, I'm not impressed. I'll never praise him.
Boom 💥
@@ComesTheLight it wasn't as simple as that. He became more against slavery due to the war, and the men he worked with. Men like John Adams helped him to see what slavery was. If you grew up thinking one way and believing it is just and fine of course you would struggle with it. He is praised with that because he is the only one of the slave owning founding fathers who set them free. On top of that he required education be given to the young and the elderly be given a pension and allowed to live on the estate. The point of the video is to show the complexity of who he really was, a man of the times struggling with a coming future, and I honestly believe if he had lived past 1799 he would have eventually freed them anyway
THREE HUNDRED?! My god…must be nice sitting around all day politicking in a huge resort / estate while other people actually do all the work
He also was a sorry individual. He would travel to the east coast with his slaves as helpers and etc and in the east coast, they had rules that if an enslaved person was in a free state for more than like 30 days or something, they would be considered free so George lazy, whack self would switch out his slaves to ensure they wouldn't get freedom. Imagine sending back a slave and switching it out like a new outfit and not having a plane to send them on. Hope all slaves get eternal freedom.
More History Channel...less TMZ, I like the this style Inside Edition!
@G ok boss!
I agree. IE is posting a lot of dumb stories lately. And G, be nicer.
Most of his slaves were his own children, that’s why he had so many slaves
I live in Highland Park NJ, not far from the Albany Street bridge over the Raritan River at New Brunswick. Thousands of people drive or walk over that bridge every day. It was a spot where bounty hunters once caught fugitive slaves heading north. Some free blacks were simply kidnapped there and sold into slavery.
They ALWAYS try and change on they death bed..... EVERYONE....🎭
They want to do evil then suddenly find a change of heart when their soul is in question and deaths door isn't far away.
Even bad slavery was a common practice at that time. They new it was evil but the south's economy depended on it.
It does give a deeper understanding of the founding of the nation, and unfortunately current satiation of many
E I so very true!
"Situation", maybe?
See I knew their was a reason he's evil self was only worth $1
That picture of him on the dollar bill is his criminal mug shot.
Before wall street there was slave trade
Thanks for sharing.
Well here’s my 3rd grade history lesson
He also wore the actual teeth of an enslaved man.
And we were Never slaves, we were enslaved.
Thanks for this video I am 53 years old and this is my first time ever hearing about this lady. Black history month is very important part of my life
Now this is something worthy of learning
Thank You So Much Inside Edition For The History Lessons And Getting This Lady Book 🖤 I learned something new today 🤗
This was very well told!!!
Props to Ona escaping . Like I said in the little girl dressing up video , black history built this country
actually, not really, to be honest
Transatlantic slave traders were Jewish. Let's have that conversation.
Some of them were; not all of them. Most were Protestants or Catholics.
Inside edition: “slaves”
White man: *AM I A JOKE TO U*
Yeap a Democrats of the year 1800s
iLameOreo_x ! Did you sneeze or something?
Definitely doesn’t change my perception of Washington. Obviously things were different back then. People owned slaves....
Mitchell Meissner but strippers l love him 😂
You must be a white male.
More anti-white pro-black rhetoric. Thanks. That's all we needed.
Please reupload. God damn is the audio bad, I mean really I can't even hear her.
So this was the guy who people said was good...
Not people. Only demons think like that.
@@IntrovertedAbhi Yes
@@bagelgel5315 Except no, he was good no amount of modernist revisionist history will change that.
Thank you for informing me. I need to read the book.
You need to speak up over the music in the background
This comment section is a joke 😂
President's Day today! Ha!
I love strong black women
Nobody cares
@danki2000daniel
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Next up, how racist was the democracy party
Finally, some real history people should know about.
Interesting but the sound is too low ....
This doesn’t change my perception of Washington. Obviously things were different back then, people owned slaves. The founders of our Nation had their flaws, because man is not perfect. It is a sad fact, back in the 1700's it was normal for people to own slaves. I am happy to know, he set his slaves free upon the death of his wife. To the Author, I don't think of wigs or fake teeth when I think of George Washington. I think of the fact he was the first President of our great nation. He had an opportunity to be called, KING and he didn't want that. He was a strong military leader and was respected and loved by many Americans. Yes, he did own slaves and that fact should not be forgotten. But, there is so much more to George Washington, I feel the author wants people to only see a white guy that own slaves with fake teeth and a wig. He was much more, putting him down now in 2020 will not change the true facts of our first President.
Marilyn Phan I agree 100%
Marilyn Phan agreed!! it's history!!
You misquoted the author and did exactly what she ask listeners not to do. He was a man and should not be idolized.
He could of EASILY ENDED SLAVERY being the "1st president" but he didn't... so.... he will ALWAYS REMAIN a POS in my book for it → idc whatever else he did to make the USA "great..." a demon is still a demon even when they smile and "try" to do good!
@@Ms._Keysha Bruh
History drama is way better then school drama
Politically correct way of saying house nigga. " domesticated slaves "
We Blacks don't need to look for him in the afterlife. We know where he will be.
This is basically the same thing as Taking Liberty, but it’s more interesting and the main character is ONEY Judge
How intriguing...
It was tragic for this country that George Washington was ever allowed to have any position in the military and government. It is important to remember that George Washington was an extremely greedy, brutal, violent, deceitful man and one of the worst Supreme commanders in military history. He lost seven battles because he never provided any training to the American soldiers, he had no military strategy, he had no military tactics. He was responsible for causing the deaths of many innocent American soldiers. I do feel that people should feel sorry for him because he was a bad military general and was not suited for that position. He should also had been given a generous salary by the American government after leaving military service. George Washington, like Thomas Jefferson, believed in destroying the families of the African Americans and they both never paid the African Americans who worked in the fields. Only one slave was freed after George Washington died.
0:53 that's not judge, that's prose poet phillis wheatley
Volume low wtf
That's the way the cookie crumbled.
Hey guys, I hope y’all have a wonderful day!
What about the slave that he impregnated, the one where black defendants were found with Washington’s DNA, wouldn’t that have been the definitive factor in his decision to emancipate his slaves. Not the fact that he empathized with slavery, but that he wanted to afford freedom to the half black children he fathered.
S_ Ellis actually that was thomas Jefferson
@BronxRisen
Wouldn’t surprise me if he got any of them pregnant. He saw them as a commodity.
I just wanna learn history..like world war 1 and world war 2 but I’m thinking of studying the second schlieben war(I think I misspelled it) between the Prussians and Danes.But id I think of studying Goarge Washington in a non biased way.
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Can we chill with the music?! It's difficult to hear parts of what she's saying.
He still had slaves.
Thanks for your time. Do you have your own RUclips channel? I can't find your name in the description, rude, but regardless I'd love to hear more of your knowledge. This is the kind of history I want to teach my kids.
U good?
Inside Edition encourages opening old wounds to enhance racial division rather than reconciliation
I don't think there's anything controversial she said about George Washington.
@@PennyMsElite Facts white people cringe at facts
Neishas Crazyworld and black people always twist them around for privileges
Penny Proud and nobody’s trying to erase history it’s just what’s happened passed it’s over like kids these days white black asian Latino hate history cause it’s “boring” which it’s NOT and say things “ nobody cares about the past they’re dead already” but once a white person is quote on quote being racist they bring up history like honey I thought you said history didn’t matter and nobody cares black people only bring history up for privileges but once you say oh this is interesting a native Americans were driven out of there homes by white man black people be like it’s the past nobody cares but when they need privileges they bring up slavery like they saw in Spanish nada más lo que te combiné
You only bring up history that suits you lol 😂
Maybe he just wanted to find her to tell her she forgot to wash the dishes
Donald Trump spends more than that looking for illegal immigrants
I personally think that in at least one way George Washington had a far better record on manumission than Thomas Jefferson who is also on Mount Rushmore. Yes George did still try to capture Ona instead of leaving her alone despite him knowing full well that slavery was wrong but unlike Thomas Jefferson George eventually put his anti slavery beliefs into practice by providing for the eventual freedom of those that he had enslaved in his will. Jefferson on the other hand only freed 10 out of the 600 people who were enslaved by him.
Two put my one dollar in (hehe get it?), I think you can recognize his great achievements in life while also recognizing his flaws. I think it's that simple.
I’m not surprised .You have to understand Washington wasn’t our Washington for many of his life, specifically his younger years.If you were to talk to him, he wouldn’t say he was the master of the Revolution, he’d say he was a farmer.I mean raised with slaves, raised around slavery, it was a part of life, and for anyone to be rather successful, especially in farming which he was skilled and raised in, slaves were an unfortunate need. It was a part of life, a part of life in the colonies.Yes he was a major military figure among Americans during the time, but our view of him came later on, especially when escalation was happening between the Americans and British.The only reason the founding fathers couldn’t ban slavery in the United States, as they wished to do so, was because the Southern colonies would never join if their way of life was to be so badly crippled. Let me take you back in time, let’s have you born a farmer.Ohh, look, you had slaves.I mean it was a part of British life, you were raised with them, you had no choice but to he born into a society which slavery was nothing too shocking .You weren’t really going to come out of your mother’s womb with a copy of “Uncle Tom’s Cabin.”
Washington never spoke out publicly against slavery. But in this private letter to fellow Virginian John Mercer, dated September 9, 1786, and written at a time when he held 250 men, women, and children in slavery, Washington avows his dislike of the institution of slavery, an institution that violated the ideal of freedom and equality: “I never mean . . . to possess another slave by purchase; it being among my first wishes to see some plan adopted by which slavery in this Country may be abolished.”
Which in the end meant nothing.
Am I the only one who couldn’t understand what she was saying cause of the music and her soft voice? I had to read the comments to understand what she was saying :/
He was very complex however there is one thing to me at least that makes him overall a good guy he had the opportunity to be crowned the king of America and he denied that. The man could have ruled with absolute power and he refused.
The fact that he enslaved hundreds of people over his lifetime and held absolute power over them, which included whipping them himself sometimes, makes him overall a bad guy to me.
That’s horrible. I wonder what they did to gay people or Asians back then
Asians hadn't immigrated to the country yet, and gay people had to live in secret.
I had to read a book abt that lol
Who's we feel uncomfortable you mean white people feel that way
I always wondered why schools never talked about the first presidents having slaves.
Corona light they did...
Mine did.
@@Purified_Water_Enjoyer You and @Bob Might must be in a different generation than I am. None of my teachers ever talked about this. Instead, we were told George Washington had wooden teeth (a lie), and told about the lesson he learned from chopping down the cherry tree. (Another lie; it never happened.) My husband had a teacher who became angry with him when he tried to explain to her that the earth rotated on its axis. She kept saying, no it didn't. He knew she was wrong and he was just a little kid!
There's a slave trade going on in Libya.
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Wow I did not know that
Uhm "Makes us think about a human being with flaws" ok, nah it makes me think what a big racist he was. Already knew tho sooooo like ......
I live here in Wyoming but I was able to go to D.C this summer and it was amazing I even went to George Washington’s house and his farm. It was super cool and would recommend it to anyone
As a black man I can hate the crimes of the man and yet appreciate his contribution to the world. People need to move forward, being made better by learning from the past.
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@@BTheTrue 🤣 I know. I wanted to roll my eyes real hard. 🙄 Those like Mario should be placed back into chains. Then let's if he will still say something as stupid. Maybe, he can have an encounter with the slave patrol in blue. 😂
If I were a save who knew abt his death bed wishes, I would have tried to expedite Martha Washington’s funeral
So he owned slaves too? So much for a free society!
Bro he lives on an island( went last summer)
Before 1K?
Dude, this was more then 200 years ago. This was common then so it’s expected, you can’t hold someone from back then to modern standards.
Lol... "modern" standards? GTFOH with that 💩
It was inhumane no matter the timeline you imbecile 🤪
He just couldn't bring himself to live without his slaves
And it wasn't right to force his wife to live without them either
And as the very first US president,
He ran the first legalized marijuana industry as a slave owner
It wasn't right to force his wife to live without slaves? Your thinking is very twisted.
@@ComesTheLight you ever hear of the word SARCASM
Well magnify that to me being extreme to drive the pint of just how much a selfishly cowardly person can be recognized today without blemish because he wàs the way president
Bill Cosby's shows have been terminated for lesser humane crimes
Michael Jackson music is banned by certain platforms etc
I doubt Harvey Weinstein's movies and productions will be removed from TV, theatre's and such
And that epitomizes the Great White Way
The American Dream
Etc etc etc
I really hate you missed such a blatant example of obvioys sarcasm intended to cast shade and slight to horrifically celebrated American hero's despite their exploits and accomplishments have since been rejected and deemed criminal
In fairness, Washington was not looking for her, knew where she was most of the time but was discouraged from retaking her by force because of the high risk of inciting a violent riot against his slave catchers from the local populace if he had attempted it. The people of New Hampshire, true to form, were mostly cold and inhospitable to Ona for the rest of her life but there was very little doubt that any attempt to drag her onto a boat and carry her back into bondage would result in spontaneous armed resistance to what would have been the exercise of the legal rights of the President of the United States and a man already regarded as the Father of the Country.
Good to know
I can barely hear the woman speaking 😣
hardly relentless, check some other sources
i actually watched the video before i commented
Whoa there, that is amazing
If you aint in chains or locked up then your free 😂💯