Presented by Bruce Ragsdale*

For more than forty years, George Washington was dedicated to an innovative and experimental course of farming at Mount Vernon, where he sought to demonstrate the public benefits of recent advances in British agriculture. In this lecture, Ragsdale will discuss these methods of British agricultural improvement and how they also shaped Washington’s management of enslaved labor.

This lecture will take place via Zoom. Registration ends at 5:30pm on the day of the lecture.