Washington at the Plow: Agriculture and Slavery in the NewNation

Fraunces Tavern Museum

For more than forty years, George Washington was dedicated to an innovative and experimental course of farming at Mount Vernon, where he sought to demonstrate the public benefits of recent advances in British agriculture. In this lecture, recorded February 17, 2022, Bruce Ragsdale will discuss these methods of British agricultural improvement and how they also shaped Washington’s management of enslaved labor.