Comment on Not a great look for 'ol GW

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• chuckleslord@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Brother, you’re not a kick streamer, you don’t need to wildly speculate based solely on your own predetermined biases. Good lord

  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_Act_for_the_Gradual_Abolition_of_Slavery

  The capital was in Pennsylvania at the time, PA state law exempted Congress from slavery prohibitions, but it was legally unclear if that extended to other gov’t employees, namely the president. He kept moving so that he was never in PA for more than 6 months at a time, so that he could never be considered a resident of PA. He did it to prevent having a lawsuit to settle the question if PA’s law extended to his office, to avoid the appearance of a scandal, especially one so closely tied to the controversial subject of slavery.

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  • davidagain@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I came into this thread to find out why. Thank you very very much for the excellent explanation and the link for more info, but please don’t be harsh on people who don’t know what you know.

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    • chuckleslord@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I’m not being harsh cause they didn’t know. Being harsh cause they speculated instead of looking for the information. We all have access to any knowledge we want, and the link had already been posted in this thread before I said. And the explanation already given, as well.

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  • baines@lemmy.cafe ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    sir this is a meme thread

    thank you for the info though

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