Description: Slave Labor in the Capital, District of Columbia, Paperback 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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Location: Columbia, South Carolina
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Item must be returned within: 30 Days
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Brand: Unbranded
MPN: 9781626197213
Book Title: Slave Labor in the Capital : Building Washington's Iconic Federal Landmarks
Item Length: 9in
Item Height: 0.3in
Item Width: 6in
Author: Bob Arnebeck
Format: Trade Paperback
Language: English
Topic: Slavery, United States / State & Local / Middle Atlantic (DC, De, Md, NJ, NY, Pa), Subjects & Themes / Historical, Museums, Tours, Points of Interest, Ethnic Studies / African American Studies
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Publication Year: 2014
Genre: Photography, Travel, History, Social Science
Item Weight: 14.7 Oz
Number of Pages: 192 Pages
