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Slave Labor in the Capital : Building Washington's Iconic Federal Landmarks by Bob Arnebeck (2014, Hardcover)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherArcadia Publishing

ISBN-101540211827

ISBN-139781540211828

eBay Product ID (ePID)239711140

Product Key Features

Book TitleSlave Labor in the Capital : Building Washington's Iconic Federal Landmarks

LanguageEnglish

TopicSlavery, United States / State & Local / Middle Atlantic (DC, De, Md, NJ, NY, Pa), Ethnic Studies / African American Studies

Publication Year2014

IllustratorYes

GenreSocial Science, History

AuthorBob Arnebeck

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height0.5 in

Item Weight15.2 Oz

Item Length9 in

Item Width6 in

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Intended AudienceTrade

Dewey Edition23

Dewey Decimal975.3/02

SynopsisIn 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.