Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Introduction The Life of a Husbandman 1
4. 1 The Experiments of a Virginia Planter 20
5. 2 The Agricultural Foundations of Independence 49
6. 3 Mount Vernon in Wartime 78
7. 4 New Farming in a New Nation 102
8. 5 Enslaved Agricultural Labor at Mount Vernon 134
9. 6 Cincinnatus and the World of Improvement 171
10. 7 The Farmer President 202
11. 8 Agriculture and the Path to Emancipation 236
12. Epilogue The Reputation of a Farmer 277
13. Abbreviations 295
14. Notes 297
15. Acknowledgments 345
16. Index 351