• remotelove@lemmy.ca
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    12 days ago

    The history of Washingtons teeth is uncertain. The evidence that those were slave teeth seems to show that the teeth were purchased.

    Internet pictures with words are fucking dumb.

    • The Spectre@lemmy.mlOP
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      11 days ago

      Washington owned slaves. He was not some moral high ground individual. The only reason why they even got independence from Britain was that Britain wanted to stop the expansion of the territory and the people in the colonies wanted to continue it and kill all the natives.

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      In 1784, Washington paid unnamed “Negroes” for nine teeth. We don’t know the precise circumstances, says Van Horn: “The president’s decision to pay his slaves for their teeth may have been a recognition on his part that teeth were something sacrosanct and personal.” On the other hand, being enslaved meant that any economic exchange was inherently not fair.

      He literally took advantage of enslaved people to get their teeth and you consider it as just “bought”. Top tier cracker mindset. I guess that to you it was also fair for him to own his slaves because he “bought” them.

      https://daily.jstor.org/were-george-washingtons-teeth-taken-from-enslaved-people/