she/they. formerly ughhniam🥸
no ‘if’s ‘and’s or ‘but’s.
Don’t defend slave owners. No they weren’t “unusually kind” to their slaves. No it doesn’t make up for it if they freed them later in life. No John Jay was not fucking kind for buying slaves and having them work for him until they had “payed their debt”. No Washington is not excused because he freed his slaves after he died. They were all still slavers and benefited of slavery.
DON’T DEFEND SLAVE OWNERS!
And because I wouldn’t have to say this if it wasn’t for some people in the Hamilton fandom, here is a list of all the people in Hamilton who owned slaves:
- George Washington (plantation owner)
- Thomas Jefferson (plantation owner)
- James Madison (plantation owner)
- Aaron Burr (several personal slaves)
- Peggy Schuyler (wife of plantation owner)
- Angelica Schuyler (several personal slaves)
- King George (don’t think I have to explain this one)
- Hercules Mulligan (one slave - Cato)
- Charles Lee (plantation owner)
- George Eacker (assumed)
- Samuel Seabury (several personal slaves)
- James Reynolds (several personal slaves)
- Phillip Schuyler (plantation owner)
DO NOT DEFEND THEIR SLAVERY!!! (also correct me if I forgot someone of have wrong information)