Buried Lives: The Enslaved People of George Washington's Mount Vernon
Language: English
Published by Holiday House, 2022
- Softcover
- Used
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- Title
- Buried Lives: The Enslaved People of George Washington's Mount Vernon
- Author
- McClafferty, Carla Killough
- Publisher
- Holiday House
- Publication year
- 2022
- Condition
- Good
- Binding
- paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0823447413
- ISBN 13
- 9780823447411
When he was eleven years old, George Washington inherited ten human beings. His own life has been well chronicled, but the lives of the people he owned--the people who supported his plantation and were buried in unmarked graves there--have not.
Using fascinating primary source material and photographs of historical artifacts, Carla McClafferty sheds light on the lives of several people George Washington owned; the property laws of the day that complicated his decision to free them; and the Cemetery Survey, an archeological dig that is shaping our understanding of Mount Vernon's Slave Cemetery. Poignant and thought-provoking, Buried Lives blends the past with the present in a forward-looking account of a haunting piece of American history.
Includes a foreword by Zsun-nee Matema, a descendant one of the enslaved people at Mount Vernon who is highlighted in this book, backmatter outlining the author's sources, and an index.
A Junior Library Guild selection
A Bank Street Best Children's Book of the Year
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