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Washington at the plow : the founding farmer and the question of slavery / Bruce A. Ragsdale.

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"George Washington spent most of his time farming, often employing experimental methods. Washington saw slave-powered scientific agriculture as the key to the nation's prosperity. Bruce Ragsdale argues that it was slave labor's inefficiency as much as its inhumanity that finally convi...

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Main Author: Ragsdale, Bruce A. (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Massachusetts : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2021.
Subjects:
Washington, George, > 1732-1799.
Agriculture > Virginia > Experimentation > History > 18th century.
Slave labor > Virginia > Mount Vernon (Estate)
Slavery > Virginia > Mount Vernon (Estate)
Enslaved persons > Emancipation > Virginia > Mount Vernon (Estate)
Mount Vernon (Va. : Estate) > History > 18th century.
Agriculture > Experimentation.
Slave labor.
Slavery.
Enslaved persons > Emancipation.
Virginia.
Virginia > Mount Vernon (Estate)
History.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: The life of a husbandman
  • The experiments of a Virginia planter
  • The agricultural foundations of Independence
  • Mount Vernon in wartime
  • New farming in a new nation
  • Enslaved agricultural labor at Mount Vernon
  • Cincinnatus and the world of improvement
  • The farmer president
  • Agriculture and the path to emancipation
  • Epilogue: The reputation of a farmer.

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