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100 1  Ragsdale, Bruce A.,|eauthor. 
245 10 Washington at the plow :|bthe founding farmer and the 
       question of slavery /|cBruce A. Ragsdale. 
264  1 Cambridge, Massachusetts :|bThe Belknap Press of Harvard 
       University Press,|c2021. 
264  4 |c©2021 
300    vii, 358 pages :|billustrations ;|c25 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
504    Includes bibliographical (pages 297-343) references and 
       index. 
505 0  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. 
520    "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"--|cProvided by publisher. 
600 10 Washington, George,|d1732-1799. 
600 17 Washington, George,|d1732-1799.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst00178100 
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650  0 Slave labor|zVirginia|zMount Vernon (Estate) 
650  0 Agriculture|zVirginia|xExperimentation|xHistory|y18th 
       century. 
650  0 Enslaved persons|xEmancipation.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01120540 
650  0 Slavery|zVirginia|zMount Vernon (Estate) 
650  0 Enslaved persons|xEmancipation|zVirginia|zMount Vernon 
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650  7 Agriculture|xExperimentation.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst00801509 
650  7 Slavery.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01120426 
650  7 Slave labor.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01120393 
651  0 Mount Vernon (Va. : Estate)|xHistory|y18th century. 
651  7 Virginia|zMount Vernon (Estate)|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01333596 
651  7 Virginia.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01204597 
655  7 Biographies.|2lcgft 
655  7 History.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01411628 
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