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Buried lives : the enslaved people of George Washington's Mount Vernon
- Title
- Buried lives : the enslaved people of George Washington's Mount Vernon / by Carla Killough McClafferty.
- Author
- McClafferty, Carla Killough, 1958-
- Publication
- New York : Holiday House, [2018]
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | Sc F 20-143 | Schomburg Center - Research & Reference |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFF 19-923 | Schwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121 |
Details
- Additional Authors
- Schomburg Children's Collection.
- Description
- x, 158 pages : illustrations (chiefly color); 27 cm
- Summary
- "When he was eleven years old, George Washington inherited ten human beings. The life of the first president has been well chronicled, but the lives of the people of color he owned--the people who sustained his plantation and were buried in unmarked graves there--have not. Using fascinating primary source material and photographs of historical artifacts, author Carla Killough McClafferty sheds light on the lives of several of the men and women enslaved by the Washington family: talented people like Caroline, an expert seamstress, and Peter Hardiman, a gifted horseman, who married and raised a family on the plantation. Determined people like Ona Maria Judge, who tended to Martha Washington's needs day and night, but who still managed, one fateful day, to slip away and sail to freedom. McClafferty also explains in clear terms the property laws of the day that complicated George Washington's eventual decision to free the people he owned, and the modern-day archaeological survey at Mount Vernon's Slave Cemetery that is uncovering new information about a burial ground that was nearly forgotten to time."--Page [2] of cover.
- Subjects
- Slavery
- Slaves
- Washington, George, 1732-1799
- Relations with slaves
- Slavery > Virginia > Mount Vernon (Estate) > Juvenile literature
- JUVENILE NONFICTION / Biography & Autobiography / Presidents and First Families (U.S.)
- Virginia > Mount Vernon (Estate)
- Juvenile works
- Mount Vernon (Va. : Estate) > Race relations > Juvenile literature
- Washington, George, 1732-1799 > Race relations > Juvenile literature
- Race relations
- JUVENILE NONFICTION / Biography & Autobiography / Cultural, Ethnic & Regional
- Slaves > Virginia > Mount Vernon (Estate) > Juvenile literature
- JUVENILE NONFICTION / History / United States / Colonial & Revolutionary Periods
- Genre/Form
- Juvenile works.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 133-149) and index.
- Audience (note)
- Age 8-12.
- Grade 4 to 6.
- Awards (note)
- A Junior Library Guild selection (JLG)
- Contents
- William Lee -- Christopher Sheels -- Carolina (Branham) & Peter Hardiman -- Ona Maria Judge -- Hercules -- The end of an era -- And then what happened? -- Buried lives -- Washington's own words about slavery.
- Call Number
- Sc F 20-143
- ISBN
- 9780823436972
- 0823436977
- LCCN
- 2016058471
- OCLC
- 978250509
- Author
- McClafferty, Carla Killough, 1958- author.
- Title
- Buried lives : the enslaved people of George Washington's Mount Vernon / by Carla Killough McClafferty.
- Publisher
- New York : Holiday House, [2018]
- Edition
- First edition.
- Type of Content
- textstill image
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Local Note
- Schomburg copy with dust jacket.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 133-149) and index.
- Audience
- Age 8-12.Grade 4 to 6.
- Awards
- A Junior Library Guild selection (JLG)
- Added Author
- Schomburg Children's Collection.
- Research Call Number
- Sc F 20-143JFF 19-923