Frontmatter
Contents
Introduction The Life of a Husbandman
1 The Experiments of a Virginia Planter
2 The Agricultural Foundations of Independence
3 Mount Vernon in Wartime
4 New Farming in a New Nation
5 Enslaved Agricultural Labor at Mount Vernon
6 Cincinnatus and the World of Improvement
7 The Farmer President
8 Agriculture and the Path to Emancipation
Epilogue The Reputation of a Farmer
Abbreviations
Notes
Acknowledgments
Index