George Washington has been revered as the Father of this Country for decades. The Virginian planter and his wife owned 318 slaves. Life of the plantation masters had always been painted full-white, however the Southern climate had been deadly to white women and slave owners exercised droit seigneur over the chattel women and girls.
The races mixed in blood.
Families were not pure.
Not everyone white was white.
And Washington well could have had black as might have Robert E. Lee.
Many of the early presidents possessed African blood, except in paintings.
Even the Father of the Nation.