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Women in George Washington's World /
"This volume highlights some of the women Washington knew: women who admired and memorialized him; women who provided him love and solace; women who frustrated him; women who worked for or against him. The essays reveal the lives of a diverse group of women, from plantation mistresses to enslav...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London :
University of Virginia Press,
2022.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction / Cynthia Kierner
- The mother of the father : memorializing Mary Washington in antebellum Virginia / Kate Haulman
- "She did not come up to 'Ole Mistis' in Mammy's eyes!" : relationships between the women, enslaved and free, of Mount Vernon / Mary V. Thompson
- Service and sacrifice : Martha Washington / Lynn Price Robbins
- "The tender heart of the chief could not support the scene" : General Washington, Margaret Arnold, and the treason at West Point / Charlene M. Boyer Lewis
- George Washington and Phillis Wheatley : the indispensable man and the poet laureate of the American Revolution / James G. Basker
- Abigail Adams and the president's portrait / Sara Georgini
- "You are welcome to eat at her table" : Elizabeth Willing Powel's world of Philadelphia / Samantha Snyder
- "I had friends among the colored people of the town" : the enslaved women of the president's household and Philadelphia's African American community / George W. Boudreau
- Invalid juggernaut : Ann Pamela Cunningham and her quest to save George Washington's Mount Vernon / Ann Bay Goddin.