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Yes, George Mason, a Founding Father and author of the Virginia Declaration of Rights, owned enslaved individuals. Throughout his life, he managed a plantation in Virginia where he relied on enslaved labor for agricultural production. While he expressed moral reservations about slavery, particularly in his writings, he did not free his enslaved workers during his lifetime. Mason's complex relationship with slavery reflects the contradictions of many of his contemporaries.

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