George Washington Quotes
The crisis is arrived when we must assert our rights, or submit to every imposition, that can be heaped upon us, till custom and use shall make us as tame and abject slaves, as the blacks we rule over with such arbitrary sway.
Washington, George. "From George Washington to Bryan Fairfax, 24 August 1774." The Papers of George Washington, Colonial Series, vol. 10, 21 March 1774 - 15 June 1775, edited by W. W. Abbot and Dorothy Twohig, University Press of Virginia, 1995, pp. 154-156.
Tension was high between England and America and war was rumored. The question of whether Blacks would fight for America as they had in the Revolution and the War of 1812 arose.
In 1775 Brown University decided to forgo the usual public Commencement and celebration due to:
See also {612345} for a contemporary description of the Slavs.
George Washington was the first President of the United States (1789-97), the Commander-in-Chief of the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War, and one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. He presided over the convention that drafted the current United States Constitution and during his lifetime was called the "father of his country".
