"Who was Achmet?

Hammet (or Achmet) was an enslaved man connected to George Washington in the late 18th century. Unlike most enslaved people in Virginia at the time, he was not of West African origin—he was likely from North Africa, possibly brought through Mediterranean or diplomatic channels rather than the transatlantic slave trade.

How did he end up with Washington?

Achmet came into Washington’s household around 1786, but not through purchase in the usual sense.

He was likely given to Washington as a diplomatic gift.
The probable source was Sidi Mohammed ben Abdallah (also known as Mohammed III of Morocco), whose country had friendly relations with the young United States.
Morocco was actually one of the first nations to recognize the U.S., and such gifts were part of diplomacy at the time."--chat gpt

https://archive.org/details/hammetachmetserv00sted/page/n1/mode/2up

"Years ago in Middletown, Conn., there lived an aged colored man; he was very short and thick-set, very black, with sooty wool, which long manipulation had converted into pipe -stem curls, which waved about his face in the most comical way imaginable. He had been a servant of General Washington. At first as a little boy, holding the General's horse, then waiter — for many long stories he could tell of the fine dinners and grand company in " Massa Washington's mansion."

"His cottage door bore the inscription: "Drums, large and small, made and sold by General Washington's waiter." Hammet also collected old shoes, and took them to Nathan Starr's gun factory, where they ' ' were burned to polish guns. '"

"Hammet's first wife, named Jane, was buried in the old northwestern part of Mortimer cemetery, and now houses are built over the spot where once stood a wooden slab painted dazzling white, and inscribed: "Jane Achmet," by Hammet's own hands. This slab he considered quite like marble.

Mrs. Achmet second was not a "colored lady," as the first was, — but as mixed marriages were not in favor, the young bride (she was very much Hammet's junior, in fact his first wife and he had befriended her, and educated her after their fashion,) washed her face and hands in a decoction of mahogany chips, and went to the Methodist parsonage, and married " George Washington's waiter." The dye lasted a long time — perhaps she renewed it occasionally At any rate, she remained a colored woman until Hammet's death, and then, being wooed by an old sailor and bird fancier, named Folio, she became white, and married him"

"One of those boys has said that such a strange figure as the old negro's would hardly escape mobbing now-a-days in our streets, but then the boys had not the modern notion that it was so "smart " to molest and terrify the weaker brethren."

I got a nigger last Christmas and had to return him. Whenever there was any work to be done he was nowhere to be found and he smelt like ass.

probably not the kind of thing you want to admit to doing online there special officer doofy