Harry Washington had been born in Gambia and sold into slavery as a war captive.
12 Facts About Harry Washington
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Harry Washington was purchased by George Washington, who had plantations in Virginia.
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In 1800 Harry Washington joined a rebellion against the British colonial authorities in the Sierra Leone Colony.
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Harry Washington was exiled to the Bullom Shore, where he subsequently died.
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Harry Washington later went to work on one of the Harry Washington plantations in Mount Vernon, Virginia Colony.
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Harry Washington had been working in the stables at Mount Vernon, caring for Washington's horses, when he fled again in 1776 to join the Virginia Ethiopian Regiment, made up of escaped slaves and established by Royal Governor Lord Dunmore during the American Revolutionary War.
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When Sir Guy Carleton's officials included him on the list for evacuation in the "Register of Negroes", Harry Washington gave his age as forty-three and said he had fled Mount Vernon in 1776.
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Under General Carleton's policy, Harry Washington took a British ship to Nova Scotia.
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Harry Washington lived for several years in Birchtown, Nova Scotia, Canada, which had become the largest free African-American city in North America.
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Harry Washington planned to begin a farm, using scientific farming techniques he had learned at Mount Vernon.
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In 1800 Harry Washington was among several hundred settlers who rose up in a brief rebellion against British rule.
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Harry Washington became one of the two leaders of a new settlement but died there of disease.