Many of the major Founding Fathers owned numerous slaves, such as George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and James Madison. Others owned only a few slaves, such as Benjamin Franklin. And still others married into large slave-owning families, such as Alexander Hamilton. Despite this, all expressed a wish at some point to see the institution gradually abolished. Benjamin Franklin, who owned slaves early in his life, later became president of the first abolitionist society in the United States. Despite their talk and wish for gradual abolition, no national abolition legislation ever materialized.
The indispensable man of the Revolution, George Washington owned hundreds of slaves, but during the Revolutionary War,
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