The first answer is the right one
Answer:
Throughout the 1780's and 1790's, Washington stated privately that he no longer wanted to be a slave owner, that he did not want to buy and sell slaves or separate enslaved families, and that he supported a plan for gradual abolition in the United States. Yet, Washington did not always act on his antislavery principles.
Explanation:
I don't know what you were talking about in class sorry.
If you mean europeans then it would be 1492
but if you mean humans that were there before 1492 than i have no idea when they got there