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fullten:theultradork:dickmasterson:poppypicklesticks:abendlichter:burntpicasso:dripping-adorableness:myuncreativeurl:WowHappy Presidents’ DayShit they leave out of the textbook #4838821Can I get a citation on this?I would like a citation on this because this seems like the kind of shit tumblr makes up to go “omg white people are trash all their faves are trash smh”His false teeth were made of ivory, you fucking idiots.I’d also like to point out Washington inherited his slaves, gained others by marriage, came to OPPOSE slavery but legally could not free his slaves under penalty of law in Virginia and so treated them well, and ordered them freed and paid them a sum and had them taught skills to start a new life with in his will.Learn your dang history.He had both ivory, and teeth ripped out from slaves mouths X X also from your source where washington treated his slaves so well, ‘When one of the slaves,Oney Judge, a personal attendant to Martha, escaped, Washington complained that the slave had fled “without the least provocation,” and he secretly sent agents to hunt her down. Washington could not legally free Judge, since she was Martha’s dower slave. Martha urged Washington to advertise a reward for her capture, and the ad was placed in the Pennsylvania Gazette on May 24, 1796. When the escaped former slave was spotted in New Hampshire, she said that she would agree to return out of affection for the Washington family, but only if they would guarantee her freedom, a proposal the Washingtons refused. They were still trying, surreptitiously, to recapture her two years later.[211][212] Another slave, Hercules, who served as Washington’s chef in the Presidential House in Philadelphia, managed to escape from Mount Vernon despite Washington’s suspicions that he had been planning it.[213][214] Washington would eventually replace the slaves at the President’s House with immigrant German indentured servants.’ If people are trying to escape, and you have to hunt them down, that usually means they don’t fucking want to be there. It usually means that THEY WERENT FUCKING TREATED WELL BECAUSE THEY WERE TREATED LIKE FUCKING SLAVES, and an article saying he used legal loop holes to keep them. Also in the article, THAT YOU LINKED, it states this, Washington suffered from problems with his teeth throughout his life. He lost his first adult tooth when he was twenty-two and had only one left by the time he became President.[195]John Adams claims he lost them because he used them to crack Brazil nuts but modern historians suggest the mercury oxide, which he was given to treat illnesses such as smallpox and malaria, probably contributed to the loss. He had several sets of false teeth made, four of them by a dentist named John Greenwood.[195]Contrary to popular belief, none of the sets were made from wood. The set made when he became President was carved from hippopotamus and elephant ivory, held together with gold springs.[196] Prior to these, he had a set made with real human teeth,[197] likely ones he purchased from “several unnamed ‘Negroes,’ presumably Mount Vernon slaves” in 1784.[198] Dental problems left Washington in constant pain, for which he tooklaudanum.[199] This distress may be apparent in many of the portraits painted while he was still in office,[199] including the one still used on the $1 bill.[192][Note 14]George Washington can go fuck himself -- source link