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092			_a306.362 _bR144
049			_aNFGA
100	1		_aRagsdale, Bruce A., _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aWashington at the plow : _bthe founding farmer and the question of slavery / _cBruce A. Ragsdale.
264		1	_aCambridge, Massachusetts : _bThe Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, _c2021.
264		4	_c©2021
300			_avii, 358 pages : _billustrations ; _c25 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
504			_aIncludes bibliographical (pages 297-343) references and index.
505	0		_aIntroduction: 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			_a"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	1	0	_aWashington, George, _d1732-1799. _940530
650		0	_aAgriculture _zVirginia _xExperimentation _xHistory _y18th century.
650		0	_aSlave labor _zVirginia _zMount Vernon (Estate)
650		0	_aSlavery _zVirginia _zMount Vernon (Estate) _9227192
650		0	_aSlaves _xEmancipation _zVirginia _zMount Vernon (Estate)
651		0	_aMount Vernon (Va. : Estate) _xHistory _y18th century.
655		7	_aBiographies. _2lcgft _9870
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