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Chapter 10 covers Washington’s complex relationship with slavery. First, the chapter looks at the slavery cases that he decided as a judge. Second, the discussion turns to his tenure as the president of the American Colonization Society, which advocated for gradual emancipation and the establishment of a free Black nation in Liberia. Third, the chapter looks at the justice’s controversial sale of enslaved people from Mount Vernon in 1821 and his defense of that sale, which provides a unique window into the thinking of a slaveowner and the anti-slavery criticism that he received in the press. |
