Washington at the Plow

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Washington at the Plow is written by Bruce A. Ragsdale and published by Harvard University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 067426990X (ISBN 10) and 9780674269903 (ISBN 13).

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.