Fairfax County to be renamed to Snowflake, Leech Federal Contractor, Illegal, and Traffic County
Posted by:
Lord Thomas Fairfax
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Date: August 14, 2017 02:48PM
Lord Thomas Fairfax owned 5,282,000 acres (2,138,000 ha; 8,253 sq mi; 21,380 km2) in Virginia. To manage these holdings, Fairfax depended on hundreds of slaves who worked among his 30 Virginia plantations. He was active in trading slaves and, despite his age, he proudly participated in a "little talked about" activity called "bedding down with a negro wench" for which Lord Fairfax would pay a fee to the person who supplied the "wench".