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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Jeff The Card: [QB] Oh yes, Andrew Jackson. Even admitted it in an editorial ... (if Bill had done the same, the Republicans probably wouldn't have had the support to pursue an impeachment). Hardly the only President to have an affair ... or politician. Packwood, Gingrich ... ring a bell? As for slave living conditions ... well, I might now know first-hand how slaves were kept, but [URL=http://www.mountvernon.org]www.mountvernon.org[/URL] has a pretty good idea. Read: [QUOTE]The slaves living at the Mansion House farm were housed in communal quarters. The House for Families, pictured on the left, was used until 1793. Archaeologists excavating the site 200 years later uncovered many objects which helped us discover how slaves in the House for Families lived. Some slaves lived above their place of work, such as the kitchen or carpentry shop. Others lived in quarters adjacent to the greenhouse. Although we know a great deal about many of the slaves living on the estate, the records, for the most part, do not tell us how the living spaces were assigned, or who lived in each quarter. Slaves living on the outlying farms were not housed as well as those on the Mansion House farm. They lived in small wooden cabins, with dirt floors, which were drafty and hard to keep clean. A Polish visitors described these cabins as [b]"more miserable than the cottages of our peasants."[/b][/QUOTE] Now, George Washington, great man that he might've been, sure wasn't exactly out to improve the slave's lives. Okay, yes, he allowed slaves to inter-marry on the plantation. But the simple fact of the matter is, when he inherited Mount Vernon, he inherited ten slaves. When he died, he owned 123 of the 316 slaves living at Mount Vernon. He didn't educate them besides the tasks they needed to work on Mount Vernon: milling, coopering, blacksmithing, carpentry, and shoemaking. He didn't pay them. They didn't exactly have the best housing conditions. Sure, he freed them ... after he died. Why not before he died? Guess he just couldn't live without them. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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