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Henry Washington : ウィキペディア英語版 | Henry Washington African-American Harry Washington was a one-time slave of the first president of the United States, George Washington. His history and linked documents can be found on-line.〔(Black Loyalist. )〕 Transported as a slave to America, he was bought by George Washington in 1763 to work on a project for draining the Great Dismal Swamp.〔(BlackPast.org. )〕 He was living and working in the stable at Mount Vernon, caring for George Washington’s horses.〔 ==Early life==
He was a saltwater slave from Africa purchased from a deceased estate in 1763 to be part of Washington's workforce in the Great Dismal Swamp. He later went to work at one of the farms at Mt Vernon.〔Papers of George Washington: Colonial Series, vol. 7, pp. 300, 314-15, 442-3, 516.〕 Henry Washington from Mount Vernon had taken refuge in New York〔Henry Wiencek, ''An Imperfect God: George Washington, His Slaves, and the Creation of America'', Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2003.〕 in 1771.〔 In 1776, Henry Washington fled again to join royal Virginia governor Lord Dunmore’s Ethiopian Regiment of freed slaves.〔
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