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Washington was born into a world that largely used slavery and accepted the practice without question. He owned and worked African slaves throughout his adult life the socio-economic life of colonial Virginia largely depended on slave labor while Washington initially held no moral opposition towards the institution and viewed slave workers as human property. However during Washington's day many patriots recognized the gap between the ideals of liberty and slavery as expressed by his close friends Lafayette and Hamilton leading to his apparent and gradual disapproval of the institution beginning in the American Revolution Washington inherited Mount Vernon a "substantial agriculture estate" that consisted of five farms. He also inherited his first 10 to 12 slaves from his father and later obtained them from various family members and by marriage. Washington while president publicly kept silent on slavery believing that it was a nationally divisive issue that could destroy the union. His views on slavery were private complex and gradually evolved. . .

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