Historians In Awe Over Discovery At Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello Property

Crawford More Concerned With Duty

George Crawford was at one point the attorney general of Georgia and served in the House of Representatives. Like many of his colleagues and like-minded individuals of the time, he was a proponent of states’ rights, which seemed to serve as an excuse to support slavery. He was also appointed as the United States Secretary of War. He preceded over the action in which Georgia seceded from the Union.

The Crawford family owned a plantation they called Belair, they were said to have owned upwards of one hundred slaves. As a man, though, and not a politician, Crawford was said to have been more motivated by duty than actual political beliefs.