"No government should have the authority to order any man to free his slaves if he doesn't want to."

And when the slaves were freed, most of them just kept the family name.

They knew what would happen if the slaves were not freed.

He must have freed the other slaves too, just as before.

I came back and in secret helped pass a law that would free the slaves every seven years.

This led to a great number of slaves being freed on the death bed.

When he finally has learned everything, the slave will be freed.

This was several years after all slaves were freed in 1827.

Although Washington himself could have freed his own slaves and paid them as workers, he never did.

Is it because you're the king's daughter, and your father was the one who freed the slaves?