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CaroleHenson: Thank you, thank you, thank you for starting this article. I think it has great potential.
Would it be helpful to add a table below the individual bios? I was thinking something like this:
Name/Dates | Image | Employment | Parentage | Spouse/Children | Enslaved status | Notes | Sources |
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William Costin ( c.1780 - May 31, 1842) |
Mother: Ann Dandridge-Costin (half-sister of Martha Washington) Father: unknown |
Wife: Philadelphia "Delphy" (half sister of Oney Judge) Children: 2 sons 4 daughters, including Louisa Parke Costin 3 adopted daughters |
Dower slave? (debated by scholars) |
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Oney Judge Ona Judge Staines ( c.1773 – 1848) |
personal servant to Martha Washington |
Mother:
Betty Father: Andrew Judge (white indentured servant) Half-siblings: Austin (father unknown) Tom Davis Betty Davis Philadelphia "Delphy" (father unknown) |
Husband: Jack Staines (free-Black man from Greenland, NH) Children: Eliza Staines Will Staines Nancy Staines |
Dower slave Fugitive slave (until death) |
Servant in presidential households in New York & Philadelphia Escaped to New Hampshire from Philadelphia, May 1796, after learning that she was to become a wedding gift to Martha Washington's granddaughter, Elizabeth Custis & Thomas Law Married, widowed & died in Greenland, New Hampshire Interviewed by abolitionist newspapers, 1840s |
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Will Lee "Billy" Lee ( c.1750 – 1810) |
personal servant to George Washington |
Wife: Margaret Thomas (free-Black woman from Philadelphia, PA) Children: none |
Washington slave Purchased 1768 Only person immediately freed by George Washington's will |
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Hercules Posey | |||||||
Please let me know what you think.
Regards, ==
BoringHistoryGuy (
talk) 02:21, 23 October 2021 (UTC)
I was short-sighted by not adding references in the List of enslaved people. Someone may come along and add content here that may not be in the main article.
I will work on that in the next couple of days.– CaroleHenson ( talk) 19:35, 23 October 2021 (UTC)
WHO the enslaved servant is in the Washington Family portrait remains a mystery. The balding hairline might suggest Will Lee, although his two falls incapacitated him, and it would have been difficult for him to serve family meals after 1789. There's some reference (Martha Washington Papers?) to Austin outgrowing his postilion uniform, and the servant pictured is not plump. Despite the hairline, it could be Christopher Sheels. I wish we knew.
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BoringHistoryGuy (
talk) 20:37, 23 October 2021 (UTC)
Based upon the edit summary of this change "editor didn't grasp full meaning of 'enslaved'", it seems it's good to clarify the meaning.
I think "enslaved" applies to anyone that owned a slave, because they are keeping them enslaved. Others believe that "enslaved" only applies to the time when a person is made a slave.
I think that the edit summary comment was just a snarky comment for one alternate use of "enslaved" (which is by far my preference), but it seems good to iron it out.– CaroleHenson ( talk) 18:31, 16 November 2021 (UTC)
Mr. Ford arrived at Mount Vernon in 1802. He was at that time held in bondage by Bushrod Washington. Bushrod freed Mr. Ford in 1805. Mr. Ford then worked at Mount Vernon for the next 55 years as a free man, and died there a free man in 1863. So it doesn’t seem right for this Wikipedia article to call him an enslaved person of Mount Vernon. Technically, he was, but only for less than 5% of his tenure at Mount Vernon. Anythingyouwant ( talk) 20:16, 1 June 2022 (UTC)
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CaroleHenson: Thank you, thank you, thank you for starting this article. I think it has great potential.
Would it be helpful to add a table below the individual bios? I was thinking something like this:
Name/Dates | Image | Employment | Parentage | Spouse/Children | Enslaved status | Notes | Sources |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
William Costin ( c.1780 - May 31, 1842) |
Mother: Ann Dandridge-Costin (half-sister of Martha Washington) Father: unknown |
Wife: Philadelphia "Delphy" (half sister of Oney Judge) Children: 2 sons 4 daughters, including Louisa Parke Costin 3 adopted daughters |
Dower slave? (debated by scholars) |
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Oney Judge Ona Judge Staines ( c.1773 – 1848) |
personal servant to Martha Washington |
Mother:
Betty Father: Andrew Judge (white indentured servant) Half-siblings: Austin (father unknown) Tom Davis Betty Davis Philadelphia "Delphy" (father unknown) |
Husband: Jack Staines (free-Black man from Greenland, NH) Children: Eliza Staines Will Staines Nancy Staines |
Dower slave Fugitive slave (until death) |
Servant in presidential households in New York & Philadelphia Escaped to New Hampshire from Philadelphia, May 1796, after learning that she was to become a wedding gift to Martha Washington's granddaughter, Elizabeth Custis & Thomas Law Married, widowed & died in Greenland, New Hampshire Interviewed by abolitionist newspapers, 1840s |
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Will Lee "Billy" Lee ( c.1750 – 1810) |
personal servant to George Washington |
Wife: Margaret Thomas (free-Black woman from Philadelphia, PA) Children: none |
Washington slave Purchased 1768 Only person immediately freed by George Washington's will |
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Hercules Posey | |||||||
Please let me know what you think.
Regards, ==
BoringHistoryGuy (
talk) 02:21, 23 October 2021 (UTC)
I was short-sighted by not adding references in the List of enslaved people. Someone may come along and add content here that may not be in the main article.
I will work on that in the next couple of days.– CaroleHenson ( talk) 19:35, 23 October 2021 (UTC)
WHO the enslaved servant is in the Washington Family portrait remains a mystery. The balding hairline might suggest Will Lee, although his two falls incapacitated him, and it would have been difficult for him to serve family meals after 1789. There's some reference (Martha Washington Papers?) to Austin outgrowing his postilion uniform, and the servant pictured is not plump. Despite the hairline, it could be Christopher Sheels. I wish we knew.
==
BoringHistoryGuy (
talk) 20:37, 23 October 2021 (UTC)
Based upon the edit summary of this change "editor didn't grasp full meaning of 'enslaved'", it seems it's good to clarify the meaning.
I think "enslaved" applies to anyone that owned a slave, because they are keeping them enslaved. Others believe that "enslaved" only applies to the time when a person is made a slave.
I think that the edit summary comment was just a snarky comment for one alternate use of "enslaved" (which is by far my preference), but it seems good to iron it out.– CaroleHenson ( talk) 18:31, 16 November 2021 (UTC)
Mr. Ford arrived at Mount Vernon in 1802. He was at that time held in bondage by Bushrod Washington. Bushrod freed Mr. Ford in 1805. Mr. Ford then worked at Mount Vernon for the next 55 years as a free man, and died there a free man in 1863. So it doesn’t seem right for this Wikipedia article to call him an enslaved person of Mount Vernon. Technically, he was, but only for less than 5% of his tenure at Mount Vernon. Anythingyouwant ( talk) 20:16, 1 June 2022 (UTC)