WI Washington took position against slavery

I read today an article where said Washington even he though slavery was against the American principles he refused to pronounce about the question to avoid tensions with the southern states: already in the first years of the USA were menaces of secession if slavery was abolished...

So, i will ask what will happened if Washington instead proclaimed the abolition of slavery? The southern states will accept? Or it will be already civil war?

To tell the truth, writing this thread will give me the idea to write a short TL ( yes, even if i said before there are too many American TLs and bla-bla, but it is too intriguing: war of secession during Washington's presidency, while Europe was in havoc for Revolutionary France...), but we will see later.

Also, i read Washington freed his slaves after his death ( or to better say, after the death of his wife Martha), but it is true he was the only Virginian to emancipate his slaves until 1861-1865?
 
If he does it before the invention of the cotton gin, then the South protests but stays in the Union. If it's later...
 
Was Washington really opposed to slavery? He certainly seemed determined to re-enslave those who fled to the British, and they had to be spirited away before this could be done.
 
Was Washington really opposed to slavery? He certainly seemed determined to re-enslave those who fled to the British, and they had to be spirited away before this could be done.

I think he was really opposed, the way I'm really opposed to over-eating. I recognize that it is a moral and practical wrong. Also I keep doing it.
 
I agree with what snow said, but if Washington had taken a position against slavery prior to the invention of the cotten gin we could have seen a Whiskey rebbeilion sort of incedent in which there will be some violent opposition.



 
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