George Washington voluntarily took up arms against the existing legal government, a traitor to the Crown in a war of secession against the United Kingdom.
The Royal Governor of Virginia declared that any slave who would fight for the Crown would be emancipated. A fact that put Washington, a slaveowner, in the position of fighting to preserve slavery. The descendants of Martha Washington’s slaves were inherited by Lee’s wife, who was Martha’s great granddaughter.
George Washington: First in War, First in Peace, and First in the Hearts of Nine Percent of his Countrymen, a phrase coined by Robert E Lee’s own father, General Henry “Lighthorse Harry” Lee.
Perhaps you’re going to have to throw Washington under the bus in order to remain consistent.
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Perhaps you’re going to have to throw Washington under the bus in order to remain consistent.
Your attempt to compare George Washington and our Founding Fathers to the southron slavrocracy falls on its face for many reasons. The colonists lacked representation - indeed they weren't even considered legitimate English subjects. Surely you remember "taxation without representation", don't you? They fought to be recognized in Parliament but to no avail. The south not only had representation in all three branches of government - they figured prominently for 70 years preceding their little temper tantrum.
The colonists tried for years for an opportunity to air their greivences but the crown ignored them. Congress got an earful every time a slaver got a stray hair - and more often than not gave them what they whined about.
The colonists didn't try to delude themselves - or each other as to their ambitions, they were rebelling against the crown. They knew that if they failed they would hang. The slavrocracy concocted the notion of unilateral secession in order to make themselves feeeeel better about their treachery. They knew that what they were doing was wrong, but they didn't care.