Washington at the Plow

The Founding Farmer and the Question of Slavery

Bruce A. Ragsdale

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$29.95 • £23.95 • €27.00

ISBN 9780674246386

Publication Date: 10/12/2021

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368 pages

6-1/8 x 9-1/4 inches

19 photos

Belknap Press

World

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Bruce A. Ragsdale served for twenty years as director of the Federal Judicial History Office at the Federal Judicial Center. The author of A Planters’ Republic: The Search for Economic Independence in Revolutionary Virginia, he has been a fellow at the Washington Library at Mount Vernon and the International Center for Jefferson Studies.

Awards & Accolades

2022 George Washington Prize, C.V. Starr Center for the Study of the American Experience at Washington College, Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, and George Washington’s Mount Vernon Estate & Gardens

Finalist, 2021 Book of the Year Award, Journal of the American Revolution

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