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Fairfax Resolves
[[File:AnneEilbeck-painting.jpg|left|150px|thumb|Anne Eilbeck Mason, his first wife and mother of all of their children.]]
[[File:AnneEilbeck-painting.jpg|left|150px|thumb|Anne Eilbeck Mason, his first wife and mother of all of their children.]]
Mason inherited more than 15,000 acres of land in Virginia and Maryland including 5,500 at Gunston Hall. Like many Virginia planters, Mason was constantly increasing his holdings. By the time of his death in 1792, he owned more than 75,000 acres. He served as a town trustee of Alexandria, Virginia, and as a vestryman of the local Anglican church. Mason was the second largest slave holder in Fairfax County after George Washington. Washington held approximately 300 slaves at Mount Vernon, Mason probably had about 100 slaves. Unlike his friend [[George Washington]], Mason never freed the slaves he owned instead willing them to his nine children.
Mason inherited more than 15,000 acres of land in Virginia and Maryland including 5,500 at Gunston Hall. Like many Virginia planters, Mason was constantly increasing his holdings. By the time of his death in 1792, he owned more than 75,000 acres. He served as a town trustee of Alexandria, Virginia, and as a vestryman of the local Anglican church. Mason was the second largest slave holder in Fairfax County after George Washington. Washington held approximately 300 slaves at Mount Vernon, Mason probably had about 100 slaves. Unlike his friend [[George Washington]], Mason never freed the slaves he owned instead willing them to his nine children.
==Fairfax Resolves==
George Mason was the primary author of the Fairfax Resolves of 1774.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=3a_dda80mWkC&pg=PA497 Grandpa’s US Colonial History to 1800]</ref> The resolves call for "an entire Stop for ever put to such a wicked cruel and unnatural Trade" of slavery.<ref>[http://www.constitution.org/bcp/fairfax_res.htm Fairfax County Resolves], July 18, 1774</ref>
Despite owning slaves himself, George Mason was ardently against the practice.
==Virginia Declaration of Rights 1776==
==Virginia Declaration of Rights 1776==
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