Mount Vernon Washingtons Home And the Nations Shrine
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Washington would gladly have freed his slaves, but the situation was complicated by their intermarriage with the dower slaves whom he could not free. They came to Mount Vernon by his marriage with the widow of Daniel Parke Custis, to whose heirs they reverted by law. Re- garding his slaves his will said : "Upon the decease of wife it is my will and desire, that all the slaves which I hold in my own right shall receive their freedom To emancipate them during her life, would tho earnestly wished ...by me, be attended with such insuperable difficulties, on account of their inter- mixture by marriages with the Dower negroes as to excite the most painful sensations, if not disagree- able consequences from the latter while both descrip- MOUNT VERNON 233 tions are in the occupancy of the same proprietor, it not being in my power under the tenure by which the dower Negroes are held to manumit them And whereas among those who will receive freedom accord- ing to this devise there may be some who from old age, or bodily infirmities & others who on account of their infancy, that will be unable to support themselves, it is my will and desire that all who come under the first and second description shall be comfortably clothed and fed by my heirs while they live and that such of the latter description as have no parents living, or if living are unable, or unwilling to provide for them, shall be bound by the Court .
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Washington would gladly have freed his slaves, but the situation was complicated by their intermarriage with the dower slaves whom he could not free. They came to Mount Vernon by his marriage with the widow of Daniel Parke Custis, to whose heirs they reverted by law. Re- garding his slaves his will said : "Upon the decease of wife it is my will and desire, that all the slaves which I hold in my own right shall receive their freedom To emancipate them during her life, would tho earnestly wished ...by me, be attended with such insuperable difficulties, on account of their inter- mixture by marriages with the Dower negroes as to excite the most painful sensations, if not disagree- able consequences from the latter while both descrip- MOUNT VERNON 233 tions are in the occupancy of the same proprietor, it not being in my power under the tenure by which the dower Negroes are held to manumit them And whereas among those who will receive freedom accord- ing to this devise there may be some who from old age, or bodily infirmities & others who on account of their infancy, that will be unable to support themselves, it is my will and desire that all who come under the first and second description shall be comfortably clothed and fed by my heirs while they live and that such of the latter description as have no parents living, or if living are unable, or unwilling to provide for them, shall be bound by the Court .
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