Hercules
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United StatesLived 1748 to 1812 · aged 64Hercules Posey was an enslaved African American held at George Washington's plantation Mount Vernon in Virginia. "Uncle Harkless," as he was called by a grandson of Martha Washington, served as chief cook at the Mansion House for many years.
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Mount Vernon from the north. Hercules was one of two cooks listed in the 1786 Mount Vernon Slave Census.
"Washington's Residence, High Street". Lithograph by William L. Breton, from John Fanning Watson's Annals of Philadelphia (1830).![Long thought to be a portrait of Hercules by Gilbert Stuart but is neither Hercules nor painted by Stuart[13]](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/06/Hercules_%28chef%29.jpg/1280px-Hercules_%28chef%29.jpg)
Long thought to be a portrait of Hercules by Gilbert Stuart but is neither Hercules nor painted by Stuart[13]About this person
Hercules Posey was an enslaved African American held at George Washington's plantation Mount Vernon in Virginia. "Uncle Harkless," as he was called by a grandson of Martha Washington, served as chief cook at the Mansion House for many years. In November 1790, Hercules was one of eight enslaved Africans brought by President Washington to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, then the temporary national capital, to serve in the household of the President's House, as the third presidential mansion was known.
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