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Mount Vernon (Va. : Estate) Race relations Mount Vernon (Va. : Estate) Race relations Juvenile literature Race relations Relations with slaves Slavery Slavery Virginia Mount Vernon (Estate) Slavery Virginia Mount Vernon (Estate) Juvenile literature Slaves Virginia Mount Vernon (Estate) Washington, George 1732-1799Ragsdale, Bruce A.
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 itsinhumanity that finally convinced Washington to emancipate the men and women bonded to him"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press 2021
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Summary: Draws on primary source documents and photographs of historical artifacts to examine the lives of men and women enslaved by the Washington family, and includes information on the present-day archeological survey of Mount Vernon's Slave Cemetery.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Holiday House 2018