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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     Ragsdale, Bruce A., author.     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.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Ragsdale, Bruce A., author.       by title:      Washington at the pl...         MARC Display

Washington at the plow : the founding farmer and the question of slavery / Bruce A. Ragsdale. by Ragsdale, Bruce A., author. 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. ISBN:  9780674246386 (hardcover) : 0674246381 (hardcover) Description:  vii, 358 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm 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. Requests:  0 Summary:  "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 convinced Washington to emancipate the men and women bonded to him"--Provided by publisher.   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status   Hawaii State Library Social Science & Philosophy 306.36209 Ra Checked In Add Copy to MyList

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