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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums*George Washington was very clear in his letter to the Jews he visited in Rhode Island,
explaining that the United States gives to bigotry no sanction, to persecution no assistance.
And now is a good time to live up to that promise, to light a candle in the darkness.'
The Hanukkah-Christmas convergence couldnt be more symbolic of the light we must embrace.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/the-hanukkah-christmas-convergence-couldnt-be-more-symbolic-of-the-light-we-must-embrace/2016/12/22/00e05a58-c866-11e6-85b5-76616a33048d_story.html?postshare=9871482440654338&tid=ss_fb-bottom&utm_term=.e566bf026d41
dubyadiprecession
(5,724 posts)Shoonra
(523 posts)George Washington did own slaves and in his will he gave instructions that they should be freed after Martha's death. He did not free them immediately because, his will explained, some of his slaves were married to Martha's slaves, and, additionally, he was concerned that Martha should not be without sufficient servants. Martha survived him by a little more than two years.
Augiedog
(2,548 posts)Hekate
(90,848 posts)I'm sure this fact cancels out the Treaty of Tripoli as well.
Dark n Stormy Knight
(9,771 posts)Sooooooooo....