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Episode 51: Bruce Ragsdale on Washington and slavery
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Episode 51: Bruce Ragsdale on Washington and slavery

George Washington was a farmer, first and foremost. Bruce A. Ragsdale joins host Richard Aldous this week to talk about what new perspectives this underexamined fact sheds on Washington as a leader, the early republic, and the role of slavery in American society.

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