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The commander's name is Carleton. By that point, the british empire already started to made effort to abolish slavery before united states. So Carleton believed that returning the escaped slaves to Washington would be dishonorable.
Washington keep pushing him for several years for the return of the slaves until he eventually gave up and asked for compensation instead.
Is this what your asking current presidential cabinet includes sixteen members, George Washington’s cabinet only had four members... Thomas Jefferson,Alexander Hamilton,Henry Knox, Edmund Randolph. <span>
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Ida B. Wells was a firm believer that many of the tactics used by whites against blacks, such as violent intimidation and lynching, was used purely to keep the black population from advancing socially and economically, and therefore advocated heavily for black and women suffrage in the hopes of eventually being able to change the laws.
They where both created by the us