If I could have dinner with any revolutionary it would obviously be George Washington. I would have dinner with him for many reasons; one being that he was the first president of the United States of America, another because he was a general in the army, and because he defeated the British, the most powerful military force at the time. Although he was a Virginia slave-owner, he eventually freed all of his 200 slaves. I would ask him why he did it and if he still thought blacks were inferior to whites, and I would tell him how far civil rights has come in the year 2015. I also learned in my history class that he had one slave that he regarded as his family named Billy Lee and that Lee was with him in a lot of the paintings of George Washington,
