| http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#value | - He only freed his slaves after his death, and primarily did so, Ellis suggests on good evidence, because in the changing national economy, Washington feared that slaveholding would be too great a financial burden for his wife and other heirs.Washington was deeply perplexed when slaves who had been with him for some time, escaped while he served as President in the northern cities of New York and P
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