{"id":641,"date":"2004-02-17T01:44:15","date_gmt":"2004-02-17T06:44:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2004\/02\/washingtons_slaves\/"},"modified":"2004-02-17T01:44:15","modified_gmt":"2004-02-17T06:44:15","slug":"washingtons_slaves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2004\/02\/washingtons_slaves\/","title":{"rendered":"Washington&#8217;s Slaves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday as part of C-SPAN&#8217;s President&#8217;s Day festivities, they had a segment with Henry Wiencek discussing his book, <i>An Imperfect God<\/i>, which examines George Washington&#8217;s moral struggle with the slavery issue.<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s fairly-widely known that the Washington&#8217;s owned slaves and did not free them until they died.  Apparently George was much more troubled by the situation than his wife Martha.  According to Wiencek, one of the slaves was Martha&#8217;s half-sister.  [I guess her dad was involved in the same kind of hanky panky that Thomas Jefferson was.]  Despite their relationship, Martha kept her half-sister as a slave.<br \/>\nIt says something about how strongly the slavery culture was ingrained at the time that someone could hold their own blood relative as property.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2004\/02\/washingtons_slaves\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to Washington&#8217;s Slaves\"><p>Yesterday as part of C-SPAN&#8217;s President&#8217;s Day festivities, they had a segment with Henry Wiencek discussing his book, An Imperfect God, which examines George Washington&#8217;s moral struggle with the slavery issue. It&#8217;s fairly-widely known that the Washington&#8217;s owned slaves and did not free them until they died. Apparently George was much more troubled by the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-641","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"h-entry","8":"hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=641"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}