George Washington was cruel to slaves, Indian land was stolen, whites were not slaves, and other lies you have been taught.

Conversely, a foreign visitor traveling in America once recorded that George Washington dealt with his slaves “far more humanely than do his fellow citizens of Virginia.” It was this man’s opinion that Virginians typically treated their slaves harshly, providing “only bread, water and blows.”4 Washington himself once criticized other large plantation owners, “who are not always as kind, and as attentive to their [the slaves’] wants and usage as they ought to be.”5 Toward the end of his life, he looked back on his years as a slave owner, reflecting that: “The unfortunate condition of the persons, whose labour in part I employed, has been the only unavoidable subject of regret. To make the Adults among them as easy & as comfortable in their circumstances as their actual state of ignorance & improvidence would admit; & to lay a foundation to prepare the rising generation for a destiny different from that in which they were born; afforded some satisfaction to my mind, & could not I hoped be displeasing to the justice of the Creator.”6 <a href="https://medium.com/@peterseanEsq/george-washington-was-cruel-to-slaves-indian-land-was-stolen-whites-were-not-slaves-and-other-63e8176dafba">Visit Now</a>