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Arnebeck, Bob

 
9781540211828: Slave Labor in the Capital: Building Washington's Iconic Federal Landmarks
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ISBN 10: 1540211827 ISBN 13: 9781540211828
Editorial: History Press Library Editions, 2014

Sinopsis

In 1791, President George Washington appointed a commission to build the future capital of the nation. The commission found paying masters of faraway Maryland plantations sixty dollars a year for their slaves made it easier to keep wages low for free workers who flocked to the city. In 1798, half of the two hundred workers building the two most iconic Washington landmarks, the Capitol and the White House, were slaves. They moved stones for Scottish masons and sawed lumber for Irish carpenters. They cut trees and baked bricks. These unschooled young black men left no memoirs. Based on his research in the commissioners' records, author Bob Arnebeck describes their world of dawn to dusk work, salt pork and corn bread, white scorn and a kind nurse and the moments when everything depended on their skills.

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Editorial
History Press Library Editions
Año de publicación
2014
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
1540211827
ISBN 13 
9781540211828
Encuadernación
Tapa dura
Número de páginas
194
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