George Washington's mother, Mary Washington "was strong-minded and domineering and bullied people until she got her way." She demanded to know why George Washington "was neglecting her so."
We see Washington's father less clearly. He seems to have been competent enough at business, but nothing more. Significantly, there is extraordinarily little in Washington's own voluminous writings about his father. There is instead a blank, a show of neither hostility nor affection.
When he was eleven his father died. His older half-brothers inherited the major portion of the estate, and George was left with a small plantation worked by ten slaves..." pg. 48-49 Decision in Philadelphia 1986
Need I say more.
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