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How did Lafayette, Kosicuzco, Pulaski, von Steuben, and other foreign volunteers in the American Revolution feel about fighting for freedom for a slaveowning society, and the fact that Washington and other prominent patriots owned slaves?

by /u/henry_fords_ghost in /r/AskHistorians

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