They should have called you the founding director. As we say around here. Her first book a fragile freedom African American women and emancipation published by yale extremely well regarded and important study of an understudied topic up to that point and so the perfect person to take on the challenge to recover the story of owna judge lets give erica a big round of applause. [applause] theres no other place i should be giving this talk. Good evening, everyone. Happy black history month. Here i am. So, first, let me make offer a few thank you. Of course to Dunn Bradford who invite saidd invited. Meechlt i think there is invited me. I think there is no better place to give this talk. I would like to thank emily for helping me with arrangements. It has been a very, very busy week. This book just came out on tuesday of last week. And so as an academic, doug said my first book was published with Yale University press and this book is more of a set of crossover trade books for a larger, more
The meeting of the caution to the convention, George Washington recorded an outing in his diary. Observing some farmers at work, and entering into conversation with them, i received the following information with respect to the mode of cultivating buckwheat, and the application of the grain. In his letters and diary entities throughout his life, washington frequently makes observations on crops and farming practices. For his own mount vernon estate he kept careful accounts, always seeking improvements and agricultural practices. One can read washingtons own words online, the founding hosted by the National Archives to the National Historical publication commission. Overtime, washingtons ideas on agriculture and Agricultural Labor changed, based on his own experiences in applications of modern farming techniques. In todays program we will hear from author, bruce ragsdale, whose new book, washington at the plow, discusses these changes. Explains how washingtons passion for farming led hi
Question of slavery. Yuck in the summer of 1787 in the midst of the meeting of the caution to the convention, George Washington recorded an outing in his diary. Observing some farmers at work, and entering into conversation with them, i received the following information with respect to the mode of cultivating buckwheat, and the application of the grain. In his letters and diary entities throughout his life, washington frequently makes observations on crops and farming practices. For his own mount vernon estate he kept careful accounts, always seeking improvements and agricultural practices. One can read washingtons own words online, the founding hosted by the National Archives to the National Historical publication commission. Overtime, washingtons ideas on agriculture and Agricultural Labor changed, based on his own experiences in applications of modern farming techniques. In todays program we will hear from author, bruce ragsdale, whose new book, washington at the plow, discusses th