Among them, there was Hercules Posey, an enslaved man who worked as George Washington’s personal ... a visiting scholar with the African American studies department at U.C. Berkeley, once ...

George Washington led his own fight for independence in America. Washington was born on February 22, 1732, in Pope's Creek, Virginia. His father's death in 1744 ended his formal education.

Lacking the kind of voluminous documentation that outlines the lives of George Washington and his family, modern historians studying the African American ... known as Father Jack, told stories ...