 |
Post Au3aa9Lr8YzrxHyD0y by [email protected] |
 |
More posts by [email protected] |
|
Post #AttAAJKorA2b02u85A by [email protected] |
|
0 likes, 0 repeats |
|
|
|
When he died, there were no flags, no procession, no cannons. William “Billy�… |
|
|
|
Post #AttAAJU2ItPhSdDURs by [email protected] |
|
0 likes, 1 repeats |
|
|
|
@Deglassco been a while since i recall seeing one of your history threads. grea… |
|
|
|
Post #AttAAJnX8P0eR6L3q4 by [email protected] |
|
0 likes, 0 repeats |
|
|
|
William “Billy” Lee was George Washington’s enslaved valet. He rode with … |
|
|
|
Post #AttAAK9rnMsFYMmteK by [email protected] |
|
0 likes, 0 repeats |
|
|
|
To understand Billy Lee is to understand something deeper than loyalty.He lived… |
|
|
|
Post #AttAAKUmXbbWbEZbFY by [email protected] |
|
0 likes, 0 repeats |
|
|
|
Washington chose Billy above all others.He dressed him, fed his dogs, delivered… |
|
|
|
Post #AttAAKqPFCtxgIgrxI by [email protected] |
|
0 likes, 0 repeats |
|
|
|
He rode hard through brush on a horse called Chinkling. He leapt hedges, gallop… |
|
|
|
Post #AttAALBJzRdEjATZYW by [email protected] |
|
0 likes, 0 repeats |
|
|
|
Eight years.Mud, frostbite, hunger, blood, and revolution.And when it ended—w… |
|
|
|
Post #AttAALZmWVCJx1v6gK by [email protected] |
|
0 likes, 0 repeats |
|
|
|
The ledger called him “Mulatto Will.” It did not say he was someone’s so… |
|
|
|
Post #AttAAM2UnkANO5M2RE by [email protected] |
|
0 likes, 0 repeats |
|
|
|
In the 1780s, he shattered one knee in a fall.Later, he injured the other. He … |
|
|
|
Post #AttAAMOTU1kOUFdahE by [email protected] |
|
0 likes, 0 repeats |
|
|
|
He collapsed on the way. Doctors fit him with a steel brace. He made it to th… |
|
|
|
Post #AttAAMjkCwlFYDaZqi by [email protected] |
|
0 likes, 0 repeats |
|
|
|
He had married a free Black woman named Margaret Thomas. She worked for Washin… |
|
|
|
Post #AttAAN6QqauQgaChDE by [email protected] |
|
0 likes, 0 repeats |
|
|
|
In 1799, Washington died. He freed 123 enslaved people—but only after Martha… |
|
|
|
Post #AttAANRhZVvHkY9gMi by [email protected] |
|
0 likes, 0 repeats |
|
|
|
William Lee died in 1810. His burial was quiet. He was placed in the enslaved c… |
|
|
|
Post #AttAANmGL4MymJm6Pg by [email protected] |
|
0 likes, 0 repeats |
|
|
|
Billy Lee was always there. And yet, somehow, he is never quite seen.Because wh… |
|
|
|
Post #AttAAO6p6cofo5OWSe by [email protected] |
|
0 likes, 0 repeats |
|
|
|
William “Billy” Lee was not just the body-servant of George Washington. He… |
|
|
|
Post #AttAAORjqrXwqxBE3s by [email protected] |
|
0 likes, 0 repeats |
|
|
|
Sources Abbot, W. W., et al., eds. The Papers of George Washington. Charlottesv… |
|
|
|
Post #AttAAOlwdji3rcdMYa by [email protected] |
|
0 likes, 0 repeats |
|
|
|
More Sources Hirschfeld, Fritz. George Washington and Slavery: A Documentary Po… |
|
|
|
Post #AttAAP7vK1I4xmuuoa by [email protected] |
|
0 likes, 0 repeats |
|
|
|
Still More Sources MacLeod, Jessie. “William Lee (fl. 1768–1810).” Encycl… |
|
|
|
Post #AttAAPTY1caW2r2BWK by [email protected] |
|
0 likes, 0 repeats |
|
|
|
And More Sources Mount Vernon Ladies’ Association. Last Will and Testament of… |
|
|
|
Post #AttAAPpWhuAX91JjmK by [email protected] |
|
0 likes, 0 repeats |
|
|
|
Some More Sources Schoelwer, Susan, ed. Lives Bound Together: Slavery at George… |
|
|
|
Post #AttAAQB9PVSyE5R0U4 by [email protected] |
|
0 likes, 0 repeats |
|
|
|
A Few Final Sources Thompson, Mary V. “William Lee & Oney Judge: A Look a… |
|
|
|
Post #Au3aa9Lr8YzrxHyD0y by [email protected] |
|
0 likes, 0 repeats |
|
|
|
@Deglassco Saw a show about Washington at the Huntington in L.A. some years ago… |
