Primary Sources:
Papers of George Washington. Founders Online, National Archives and Records Administration, https://founders.archives.gov.
Minutes of the Mount Vernon Ladies’ Association. The Fred W. Smith National Library for the Study of George Washington at Mount Vernon, http://catalog.mountvernon.org/digital/collection/p16829coll2/search/searchterm/minutes.
Larry Earl Jr., Christina Lane, and Willie Wright, “Enslaved Worker Song: Sit Down Servant Sit Down,” George Washington’s Mount Vernon, https://youtu.be/UAgr55wyrwA.
Teaching Resources:
Lives Bound Together: Slavery at George Washington’s Mount Vernon Online. George Washington’s Mount Vernon, https://www.mountvernon.org/lbtonline.
Lives Bound Together: Slavery at George Washington’s Mount Vernon Virtual Exhibit. George Washington’s Mount Vernon, https://lbt.mountvernon.org/.
Jefferies, Hasan Kwame. “Dealing with Things As They Are: Creating a Classroom Environment”: Teaching Hard History. Southern Poverty Law Center, https://www.learningforjustice.org/podcasts/teaching-hard-history/american-slavery/dealing-with-things-as-they-are-creating-a-classroom-environment.
MacLeod, Jessie. “Caroline Branham.” In The Digital Encyclopedia of George Washington, edited by James P. Ambuske. Mount Vernon Ladies' Association, https://www.mountvernon.org/library/digitalhistory/digital-encyclopedia/article/caroline-branham/.
Middle Passage Ceremonies and Port Markers Project (MPCPMP), https://www.middlepassageproject.org/.
Thompson, Mary. “Greenhouse Slave Quarters.” In The Digital Encyclopedia of George Washington, edited by James P. Ambuske. Mount Vernon Ladies' Association, https://www.mountvernon.org/library/digitalhistory/digital-encyclopedia/article/greenhouse-slave-quarters/.
Further Readings:
Araujo, Ana Lucia. Slavery in the Age of Memory: Engaging the Past. New York: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2020.
Cadou, Carol Borchert, Luke Pecoraro, and Thomas Reinhart, ed. Stewards of Memory: The Past, Present, and Future of Historic Preservation at George Washington’s Mount Vernon. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2018.
Casper, Scott. Sarah Johnson’s Mount Vernon: The Forgotten History of an American Shrine. New York: Hill and Wang, 2008.
Costello, Matthew. The Property of the Nation: George Washington’s Tomb, Mount Vernon, and the Memory of the First President. Lawrence: University of Kansas Press, 2019.
Downer, Joe. “Forgotten No Longer: Archaeology of the Slave Cemetery at George Washington's Mount Vernon.” George Washington’s Mount Vernon, https://www.mountvernon.org/preservation/archaeology/slave-burial-ground-research/slave-cemetery-survey-project-review/.
George Washington’s Mount Vernon. “Interpretation of Slavery at Mount Vernon Timeline.” https://www.mountvernon.org/george-washington/slavery/timeline-of-interpretation-of-slavery-at-mount-vernon/.
High on the Hog: How African American Cuisine Transformed America. “Our Founding Chefs.” Netflix. 52m, 2021. https://www.netflix.com/title/81034518.
Kendi, Ibram X. and Keisha N. Blain, ed. Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619 – 2019. New York: One World, 2021.
McClafferty, Carla Killough. Buried Lives: The Enslaved People of George Washington’s Mount Vernon. New York: Holiday House, 2018.
McLeod, Stephen, ed. The Mount Vernon Ladies' Association: 150 Years of Restoring George Washington's Home. Mount Vernon, VA: Mount Vernon Ladies’ Association, 2010.
Quander, Rohulamin. The Quanders: Since 1684, an Enduring African American Legacy. Meadville, PA: Christian Faith Publishing, Inc., 2021.
Ragsdale, Bruce. Washington at the Plow: The Founding Farmer and the Question of Slavery. Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press, 2021.
Schoelwer, Susan, ed. Lives Bound Together: Slavery at George Washington’s Mount Vernon. Mount Vernon Ladies’ Association, 2016.
Slave Dwelling Project. “Slave Dwelling Project.” Retrieved from https://slavedwellingproject.org/.
Smith, Clint. How the Word is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America. New York: Hachette Book Group, Inc., 2021.
Stevenson, Brenda. What is Slavery? Cambridge: Polity, 2015.
Thompson, Mary. “The Only Unavoidable Subject of Regret”: George Washington, Slavery, and the Enslaved Community at Mount Vernon. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2019
Twitty, Michael W. The Cooking Gene: A Journey Through African American Culinary History in the Old South. New York: HarperCollins Publishing, 2017.
Walsh, Lorena S. Motives of Honor, Pleasure, and Profit: Plantation Management in The Colonial Chesapeake, 1607 – 1763. Chapel Hill: Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press, 2010.
Wilder, Craig Steven. Ebony and Ivy: Race, Slavery, and the Troubled History of America’s Universities. New York: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2013.
