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Life Without Liberty: Slave Culture on the Mount Vernon Plantation (chapter 6)
Life Without Liberty: Slave Culture on the Mount Vernon Plantation (chapter 6)
I. Introduction/Overview:
Digital History Video -- Mt. Vernon Video
Map -- A map of General Washington's farm of Mount Vernon from a drawing transmitted by the General (ca. 1801).
Map -- Architectural plan for Mount Vernon by Samuel Vaughan, ca. 1787
Image -- "Washington, George, the Virginia Colonel (3/4 length)"
Image -- "George Washington. Copy of painting by Gilbert Stuart"
Image -- Popular heroic national image of Washington
II. Farming at Mount Vernon:
"Mount Vernon and the Pastoral Ideal:"
Image -- "Gen. Lafayette with Washington, Mount Vernon"
Image -- George Washington's home at Mount Vernon (Aquatint by Francis Jukes)
Image -- Birds-Eye View of Mount Vernon (lithograph by Thomas S. Sinclair, based on the original engraving by H. Whateley), ca. 1859
Image -- "Aerial View of Mt. Vernon and the Potomac River"
George Washington's Farming Strategies and Philosophy:
Text -- George Washington Letter to Samuel Chamberlain, April 3, 1788
Text -- George Washington to Arthur Young, December 12, 1793
Image -- Plate 1 from Jethro Tull's "Horse Hoeing Husbandry," 1733
Image -- Cover page, Thomas Hale's "Compleat Body of Husbandry," 1758
The Switch from Grain to Tobacco
Text -- George Washington to Arthur Young, June 18, 1792
Text -- Letter, George Washington to Thomas Jefferson, July 6, 1796
Management structure part 1: division into the five farms
Text -- George Washington to Arthur Young, December 12, 1793
Management structure part 2: chain of command
Text -- George Washington to William Tilghman, July 21, 1793
Text -- George Washington to Burgess Ball, July 27, 1794
Text -- George Washington to Alexander Spotswood, September 14, 1798
Organization and discipline of the workforce: domestics, craftsmen, field hands
Text -- George Washington to Arthur Young, June 18, 1792
Tools and technology
Text -- George Washington to Robert Lewis and Sons, February 1, 1785
Text -- Tobias Lear to Charles Vancouver, November 5, 1791
Text -- George Washington to Henry Lee, October 16, 1793
Text -- George Washington to Thomas C. Martin, October 3, 1797
III. George Washington and Slavery:
Washington and Slaves
Image -- "Libert. Conclusion de la Campagne de 1781 en Virginie. To his Excellency General George Washington this Likeness of his friend, the Marquess de la Fayette, is humbly dedicated." Copy of engraving by Nol le Mire, 1780s
Image -- "The Washington Family." Painting by Edward Savage, 1796
Image -- "The Life of George Washington: The Farmer," engraving by Claude Regnier after a painting by Junius Brutus Stearns, ca. 1853
George Washington's Stated Reservations about the Institution of Slavery
Text -- George Washington to Robert Morris, April 12, 1786
Text -- George Washington to John Fowler, February 2, 1788
Text -- George Washington to Charles Pinckney, March 17, 1792
Text -- George Washington to Alexander Spotswood, November 23, 1794
George Washington's Execution of a Slave Policy (and Contradictions)
Text -- George Washington to John F. Mercer, December 19, 1786
Text -- George Washington to Henry Lee, February 4, 1787
Text -- Anthony Whiting from George Washington, April 28, 1793
Text -- Diary Selection from Julian Niemcewicz, "Under a Vine and Fig Tree: Travels through America in 1979-1799, 1805 with some further account of life in New Jersey"
The slaves' execution of a policy
Text -- Anthony Whiting from George Washington, December 23, 1792
Text -- George Washington to Anthony Whiting, March 3, 1793
Text -- George Washington to William Pierce, Oct. 27, 1793
Text -- George Washington to William Pearce, May 18, 1794
Text -- George Washington to William Pearce, June 7, 1795
Slave Housing and Life
Image -- Detail of View of Mount Vernon from the Northeast, (painting by Edward Savage) ca. 1792
Image -- Slave Quarters from Mount Vernon
Martha's Dilemma
Image -- "Washington, Mrs. George (Martha) (bust)"
Text -- George Washington's Will
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