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Washington at the plow the founding farmer and the question of slavery
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| 자료유형 | 단행본 |
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| 서명/저자사항 | Washington at the plow : the founding farmer and the question of slavery/ Bruce A. Ragsdale. |
| 개인저자 | Ragsdale, Bruce A.,author. |
| 형태사항 | 1 online resource (vii, 358 pages). |
| 기타형태 저록 | Print version: Ragsdale, Bruce A. Washington at the plow. Cambridge, Massachusetts : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2021 9780674246386 |
| ISBN | 9780674269897 0674269896 9780674269903 067426990X |
| 기타표준부호 | 10.4159/9780674269897doi |
| 서지주기 | Includes bibliographical (pages 297-343) references and index. |
| 내용주기 | 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. |
| 요약 | "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"-- |
| 해제 | Provided by publisher. |
| 주제명(개인명) | Washington, George,1732-1799. Washington, George,1732-1799. -- fast -- |
| 주제명(지명) | Mount Vernon (Va. : Estate) --History --18th century. Virginia. --fast Virginia --Mount Vernon (Estate) --fast |
| 일반주제명 | Agriculture --Virginia --Experimentation --History --18th century. Slave labor --Virginia --Mount Vernon (Estate) Slavery --Virginia --Mount Vernon (Estate) Slaves --Emancipation --Virginia --Mount Vernon (Estate) HISTORY / United States / Revolutionary Period (1775-1800). Agriculture --Experimentation. Slave labor. Slavery. Slaves --Emancipation. |
| 언어 | In English. |
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