I didn’t approve of slavery, but 18 slaves came with the estate, I bought 31 slaves before the 1760a and by now, on my death bed, I own more than 300 slaves, but I have always showed some type of respect towards them. I never sold any of my slaves by their selves unless they had no family. I was not one to separate them. When I die all the slaves will be passed down to my wife because I have no children and when she dies they will all be set free and they will inherit money from me that will pay for their clothes and food. This will cover as many of them as possible, but not all.
In 1783, I was very upset about the political status of the United States so I wrote to my friends trying to get them to help create an indissoluble union. After the Shays’s Rebellion I realized that reformation was very much needed. I wrote to the head men of the states persuading them to form a more perfect union. Virginia and