George was only 11 years old when his father died. Upon his father’s death, the plantation and all its holdings were left to George’s older half-brothers, Lawrence and Augustine. Although George ...

Citizens across the colonies as well as former comrades in arms insisted that only he could forge a nation. Washington won the presidency by unanimous electoral vote in both 1788 and in 1792.

Photograph by Bridgeman/ACI When George was just 11, Augustine died ... Resigning his commission, he enthusiastically took up the life of a Virginia planter. Washington had been renting a family ...

Less than a year after Nelly's wedding, the death of George Washington had a tremendous effect on the personal lives of virtually every slave at Mount Vernon. He died on 14 December 1799 after a ...

When George Washington was a boy ... Army and helped in the victory in Yorktown. Washington died at 67 of a throat complication; he rests in a tomb to the right of the house, near a slaves ...

He used his savings to establish the George Washington Carver Museum ... Foundation at Tuskegee for research in agriculture. Carver died on 5 January 1943 in Tuskegee at the age of 78.