Harry Washington was a one-time African-American slave of the future first president of the United States, George Washington. Transported as a slave to North America, he was bought by Washington in 1763 to work on a major project, to help in draining the Great Dismal Swamp of southeastern Virginia and northeastern North Carolina. He was living and working in the stables at Mount Vernon, caring for George Washington’s horses.Washington was a saltwater slave from West Africa purchased from a deceased estate in 1763 to be part of George Washington's workforce in the Great Dismal Swamp. He later went to work on one of the farms in Mount Vernon, Virginia Colony. Henry Washington from Mount Vernon had taken refuge in New York in 1771. In 1776, Henry Washington fled again to join royal Virginia governor Lord Dunmore’s Ethiopian Regiment of freed slaves. Wikipedia
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