Slaves and Slavery
| Title | Daily Entry |
|---|---|
| 18 February 1775 |
GW left Mount Vernon for a day trip to Alexandria, Va. to meet with and exercise the Independent Company, according to his diary. |
| 08 April 1792 |
GW at Philadelphia. |
| 08 March 1792 |
GW at Philadelphia. GW wrote to Thomas Jefferson about encouraging the Commissioners for the District of Columbia to investigate the potential for canal navigation in the planned federal city. |
| 14 April 1791 |
In Va., GW traveled from Richmond and arrived in Petersburg. In his diary, GW worried that Petersburg’s trade would decline because of a future canal. |
| 12 April 1791 |
GW at Richmond, Va. GW toured the canal with Gov. Beverley Randolph and the directors of the James River Navigation Company, of which GW was president. GW described the canal in his diary. |
| 05 April 1791 |
GW at Mount Vernon. |
| 18 March 1791 |
GW at Philadelphia. GW responded to Martha Dangerfield Bland, widow of former soldier Dr. Theodorick Bland, explaining that he could not help her recover her runaway slave. |
| 23 February 1791 |
GW at Philadelphia. |
| 05 April 1797 |
GW at Mount Vernon. |
| 30 January 1775 |
GW at Mount Vernon. He rode out “to see the Sick People”--presumably among his slaves--and returned “by Muddy hole,” one of his Mount Vernon farms. |