For George Washington, #BringBackOurGirls meant something very different

[muriel_volestrangler]

Yesterday, on the 225th anniversary of the inauguration of President George Washington, politicians and prominent fundraisers of the religious right gathered in the U.S. Capitol for a civil-religious political rally called “Washington: A Man of Prayer.”

Hosted by Mike Huckabee, the two hour event featured a variety of elected leaders, such as Rep. Tim Huelskamp and Rep. Steve King, who spoke together from the podium. Huelskamp asserted that God is at the heart of America because there is a small chapel located literally in the very center of the continent in Kansas, while King proclaimed that America was established by God.

Other speakers included right-wing political Republican megapastors Robert Jeffress and Jim Garlow, Rep. Michele Bachmann, the Liar Tony Perkins, Sen. Ted Cruz, and xenophobic anti-feminist activist Phyllis Schlafly.

None of these speakers is likely to mark another notable anniversary later this month. May 21 is Oney Judge Freedom Day, honoring the woman who liberated herself from enslavement by George Washington 218 years ago. Or, as Washington himself put it, in a letter to the kidnappers he hired to bring her back, the woman “who, without the least provocation absconded from her Mistress.”

http://www.patheos.com/blogs/slacktivist/2014/05/08/for-george-washington-bringbackourgirls-meant-something-very-different/

She even offered to resubmit to slavery for herself, on the condition her children remained free and she was made free after George and Martha died, but he wouldn't negotiate with 'slaves'.