2006-08-22 03:35:12 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Business & Finance ➔ Corporations
Some did, yes. Many of our Founding Fathers were slave owners. It was also a debated topic when the nation was founded. A debate that did not end until the Civil War.
2006-08-22 03:41:13 · answer #1 · answered by sam21462 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, the founding fathers owned slaves. Even Thomas Jefferson, who wanted to abolish slavery in the Constitution, owned slaves.
2006-08-22 10:42:11 · answer #2 · answered by David T 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Definitely. George Washington owned slaves while he was the president. His will bequeathed them to Martha, then had a clause that the slaves were to be freed upon Martha's death.
As a young man in the early 1850's even Ulysses S. Grant owned a slave, whom he freed in 1852. During the Civil War, as Grant's troops encircled Vicksburg, Grant's wife had a couple of slaves given to her by her wealthy Missouri farmer father. (Grant himself said that he came to abhor slavery.)
2006-08-22 10:45:39 · answer #3 · answered by pvreditor 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Washington owned slaves. I'm not sure about Adams, but I doubt he owned slaves. Jefferson owned slaves. Monroe owned slaves.
2006-08-22 10:51:29 · answer #4 · answered by mahgri 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes they did.
Washington had many, and freed them in his will. If you go to Mt. Vernon, there is a monument to them located in the area where they were buried in unmarked graves.
Jefferson, an avid planter, was said to marvel at how farmers in the Northwest (now midwest) managed to support themselves by farming without slave labor.
2006-08-22 10:42:57 · answer #5 · answered by Jamestheflame 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Many free blacks owned slaves too
2006-08-22 10:41:53 · answer #6 · answered by zoomjet 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
What are you talking about - they still own them...their called STAFF members and Congress!
2006-08-22 10:40:38 · answer #7 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes.
2006-08-22 10:43:36 · answer #8 · answered by Lucy S 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Jefferson did. A bunch of 'em, I think.
2006-08-22 10:43:42 · answer #9 · answered by Beejee 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
unquestionably, and slept with the more attractive ones, i've heard. :-)
2006-08-22 12:58:41 · answer #10 · answered by drakke1 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋