Washington at the Plow
Subtitle: The Founding Farmer and the Question of Slavery
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2021
Language: eng
Number of pages: 358
ISBN-13: 9780674246386
Subjects: United states, history
Description: "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"--