MASTER GEORGE'S PEOPLE

upon his death

one at a time over many years

by family groups

the year after the Revolutionary War

Washington had to pay rent on his servants

Washington couldn't give orders to the field hands

Washington couldn't free his slaves

Washington was prosecuted for theft

freeing his slaves upon his death

making a larger profit on his slaves' labor

feeding his people better than other plantations

giving the most elaborate parties

indifference

hostility

empathy

resentment

Cherry Pie

tendency to exaggerate

severe indebtedness

owning enslaved people

severely oppressed

forced to work in mills for 12 hours per day

like kids everywhere, playing and getting into mischief

kept away from the Mansion, on distant farms

dancing the minuet

 imagine life without slaves

seeing anyone as his equal

acting normally around ordinary people

with a message that he didn't like poetry

that he had never heard of a Black poet

with an invitation to dinner

too late to prevent her from leaving Philadelphia

A pile of dirt is

A Government is

A Kingdom is

A Social Hierarchy

the enslaved

the army

the king

the middle class