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

Publication Info.	Cambridge, Massachusetts : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2021.
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Description	vii, 358 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical (pages 297-343) references and index.
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.
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.
Subject	Agriculture -- Experimentation. (OCoLC)fst00801509
	Virginia -- Mount Vernon (Estate) (OCoLC)fst01333596
	Slavery. (OCoLC)fst01120426
	Slave labor -- Virginia -- Mount Vernon (Estate)
	Washington, George, 1732-1799. (OCoLC)fst00178100
	Slave labor. (OCoLC)fst01120393
	Virginia. (OCoLC)fst01204597
Chronological Term	1700-1799
Subject	Mount Vernon (Va. : Estate) -- History -- 18th century.
	Agriculture -- Virginia -- Experimentation -- History -- 18th century.
Genre/Form	Biographies.
Subject	Slaves -- Emancipation. (OCoLC)fst01120540
	Slavery -- Virginia -- Mount Vernon (Estate)
Local Subject	Enslaved persons -- Emancipation -- Virginia -- Mount Vernon (Estate)
Subject	Slaves -- Emancipation -- Virginia -- Mount Vernon (Estate)
Genre/Form	History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Subject	Washington, George, 1732-1799.
ISBN	9780674246386 (hardcover)
	0674246381 (hardcover)

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