Guest editorial: What Florida gets wrong about George Washington and the benefits he received from enslaving Black people

Despite the existence of voluminous public records that reveal Washington’s treatment of Morris and other human property he owned, Florida officials want public school educators to instead emphasize Washington’s efforts to abolish slavery.

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