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Buried Lives: The Enslaved People Of George Wasthington's Mount Vernon



by
Carla Killough McClafferty

Edition
Hardcover edition
Publisher
Holiday House
Imprint
Holiday House
ISBN
9780823436972

Awards and Honors
Booklist Editors’ Choice: Books for Youth - 2018
POTENTIALLY SENSITIVE AREAS
Discrimination: Reference/Discussion, Discrimination: Racial Insensitivity/Racism
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When he was eleven years old, George Washington inherited ten human beings. His own life has been well chronicled, but the lives of the people he owned—the people who supported his plantation and were buried in unmarked graves there—have not. Using fascinating primary source material and photographs of historical artifacts, Carla McClafferty sheds light on the lives of several people George Washington owned; the property laws of the day that complicated his decision to free them; and the Cemetery Survey, an archeological dig (set to conclude in 2018) that is shaping our understanding of Mount Vernon’s Slave Cemetery. Poignant and thought-provoking, Buried Lives blends the past with the present in a forward-looking account of a haunting piece of American history.
Author's note. Source notes. Bibliography. Index. Black-and-white and full-color illustrations, photographs, and reproductions.

POTENTIALLY SENSITIVE AREAS
Discrimination: Reference/Discussion, Discrimination: Racial Insensitivity/Racism

Details

Format

Print

Page Count

144

Trim Size

10" x 8"

Dewey

306.3/6209755291

AR

8: points 7

Lexile

1150L

Genre

Nonfic

Scholastic Reading Counts

12

JLG Release

Feb 2019

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Topics

George Washington (1732–1799). Ona Judge (1773–1848). William Lee (1750–1828). Slavery. Slaves. Abolitionism. Mount Vernon (estate). Virginia. Racism. Race relations.

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