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George Washington, Slavery, and Farming

In Washington at the Plow: The Founding Farmer and the Question of Slavery, Bruce A. Ragsdale meticulously examines Washington’s activities

In the summer of 1782, nearly nine months after Patriot victory at the Battle of Yorktown during the US War

In 1892 a reporter for the Missouri-based Daily Globe-Democrat interviewed an elderly Black man by the name of Louis Fatio living near

Even as more scholars of color engage with the livelihoods of those not rich, white, or male, the way Black

On November 21, 1725, African slave Louis Congo was freed and made a salaried public executioner in Louisiana by the