George Washington Quotes about Slavery

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Not only do I pray for it, on the score of human dignity, but I can clearly forsee that nothing but the rooting out of slavery can perpetuate the existence of our union, by consolidating it in a common bond of principle.

Not only do I pray for it, on the score of human dignity, but I can clearly forsee that nothing but the rooting out of slavery can perpetuate the existence of our union, by consolidating it in a common bond of principle.

George Washington

Principles, Slavery, Unions

"Retrospections of America, 1797 - 1811". Book by John Bernard, p. 91, 1887.

I am principled against this kind of traffic in the human species . . . and to disperse the families I have an aversion.

George Washington

Slavery, Aversion, Kind

Jay A. Parry, Andrew M. Allison, George Washington (1991). “The real George Washington”, Natl Center for Constitutional