George Washington Could Not Afford To End Slavery

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Washington was still very supportive of this plan despite his inability to participate, and on May 10, 1786, he wrote to Lafayette, "[Y]our late purchase of an estate in the colony of Cayenne, with a view of emancipating the slaves on it, is a generous and noble proof of your humanity" (Fitzpatrick v...
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He writes to Lafayette in the same letter, "Would to God a like spirit would diffuse itself generally into the minds of the people of this country; but I despair of seeing it" (Fitzpatrick v.28, p.424). While Washington believed that the slaves needed to be freed, he also thought that the process should be a slow and gradual one...
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