Washington at the Plow: The Founding Farmer and the Question of Slavery by Bruce A. Ragsdale
Washington at the Plow: The Founding Farmer and the Question of Slavery

Bruce A. Ragsdale

Washington at the Plow: The Founding Farmer and the Question of Slavery

Bruce A. Ragsdale

368 pages first pub 2021 (editions)

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Slavery was a key part of Washington's pursuits. He saw enslaved field workers and artisans as means of agricultural development and tried repeatedly to adapt slave labor to new kinds of farming. To this end, he devised an original and exacting s...

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