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Hace 1 día · George Washington (February 22, 1732 – December 14, 1799) was an American Founding Father, military officer, and politician who served as the first president of the United States from 1789 to 1797.
Hace 1 día · George Washington arrived in Georgetown on July 16, 1792, to judge the final entries in the competition for who would build “The President’s House.”. The next morning, a young Irish builder named James Hoban was announced the winner. His drawing showed a three-story rectangular building of dressed stone with a frontispiece of engaged columns.
Hace 22 horas · Influenced by the American Revolution, many slave owners freed their slaves, but some, such as George Washington, did so only in their wills. The number of free black people as a proportion of the black population in the upper South increased from less than one percent to nearly 10 percent between 1790 and 1810 as a result of these actions.
Hace 5 días · Lost Cause, interpretation of the American Civil War that attempts to preserve Southern honor by casting the Confederate defeat in the best possible light. It attributes the loss to the overwhelming Union advantage in manpower and resources, and it downplays or altogether ignores slavery as the cause of war.
Hace 6 días · "The Washington Family" is a life-sized portrait portraying George and Martha Washington, two of their grandchildren, and one of their slaves. The painting depicts Washington's family seated around L'Enfant's "Plan of the City of Washington." Savage made numerous prints of the painting, and it became widely known in the 19th century.
Hace 1 día · Part II considers later non-fiction prose, examining the portrayal of the liberal ideal of leadership. Chapter 4 interrogates James’s 1898 essays on American letters, noting his depiction of the political agency of the cultivated elite. Chapters 5 and 6 examine Adams’s and Wharton’s post-1900 work.
Hace 5 días · In poems such as “The Slave Auction,” “The Slave Mother,” and “Bury Me in a Free Land,” Harper paints heart-grabbing pictures of the separation of families and the yearnings for freedom for which blacks longed during slavery.
