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 discuss his new book, Washington at the Plow: The Founding Farmer and the Question of Slavery, and 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.