Among His Slaves: George Mason’s Struggle With Slavery, by Terry K. Dunn

Look Inside! Author: Terry K. Dunn | Show Publication detailsHide Publication details Paperback Edition: Images: Color and Black & White ISBN: 978-1-943642-37-3 Library of Congress Control Number: 2015949354 Size: 6" x 9" Pages: 246 Images: 18 Release Date: 20 February 2017 Retail Price: $20.00 Ebook Editions: Not Yet Available George Mason of Gunston Hall distinguished himself as a planter, revolutionary patriot, author the Virginia Declaration of Rights, and slave owner. He wrote “that all men are by nature equally free and…have certain inherent rights…” and argued simultaneously that slavery was “that slow Poison, which is daily contamination [to] the Minds & Morals of our People.” Yet Mason owned more than a hundred slave men, women, and children himself. Over his lifetime he freed none of them. Among His Slaves explores the paradox of this important founding father who believed strongly in human rights and detested slavery, but ignored the legal opportunity to manumit