Wiencek’s book also says that “Washington paid his slaves for their teeth” and it also says “the custom of wealthy people buying teeth from the poor was common in Europe”. So while pro-black websites such as and repeat this claim verbatim, it can not be said with any certainty that Washington had the teeth yanked out of his slaves mouths. And I have not been able to find any of these specialist making this claim. But Wiencek does not name any of these “specialist” nor does not give footnoted sources for this claim. Wiencek also says “it has long been known to specialist that some of Washington’s false teeth came from the mouths of his slaves”. In that book Wiencek claims Washington’s false teeth were “yanked from the heads of his slaves and fitted into dentures”.
The specific claim originates with controversial historian Henry Wiencek in his book “ An Imperfect God: George Washington, His Slaves, and the Creation of America“.
It is at best a partial truth used to elicit an emotional response making it easier to believe the later claims in this clip. Is this claim that Washington had teeth yanked out of the mouths of his slaves true? There is no direct evidence this was the case. “What George Washington did was he had the teeth of his african slaves yanked out of their mouths and he made dentures out of those teeth” (Tariq Nasheed in Hidden Colors 3: The Rules of Racism).
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