Episode 1: Passages

11/15/21 • 41 min

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Intertwined: The Enslaved Community at George Washington’s Mount Vernon

Episode 1: “Passages”

Sambo Anderson was just a boy when he was captured in West Africa, survived the Middle Passage, and purchased by an ambitious George Washington sometime in the late 1760s. During his years of enslavement at Mount Vernon, Anderson became a carpenter, a husband, and a father. In this episode, we tell the story of Anderson’s life to explore the rise of slavery in the Chesapeake Bay region, George and Martha Washington’s connections to the transatlantic slave trade, and the laws that marked the boundaries between slavery and freedom in Virginia.

Featuring:

Dr. Brenda Stevenson, Hillary Rodham Clinton Endowed Chair in Women’s History, St. John’s College, Oxford University
Dr. Lorena Walsh, Research Historian Emerita, Colonial Williamsburg
Dr. John C. Coombs, Professor of History, Hampden-Sydney College
Dr. Lynn Price Robbins, historian of George and Martha Washington and Early America
Jessie MacLeod, Associate Curator, George Washington’s Mount Vernon

Full transcripts, show notes, and bibliographies available at www.georgewashingtonpodcast.com.

Episode 1: “Passages”

Featuring:

Dr. Brenda Stevenson, Hillary Rodham Clinton Endowed Chair in Women’s History, St. John’s College, Oxford University
Dr. Lorena Walsh, Research Historian Emerita, Colonial Williamsburg
Dr. John C. Coombs, Professor of History, Hampden-Sydney College
Dr. Lynn Price Robbins, historian of George and Martha Washington and Early America
Jessie MacLeod, Associate Curator, George Washington’s Mount Vernon

Full transcripts, show notes, and bibliographies available at www.georgewashingtonpodcast.com.

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Introducing Intertwined: The Enslaved Community at George Washington’s Mount Vernon

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Intertwined tells the story of the more than 577 people enslaved by George and Martha Washington at Mount Vernon. Told through the biographies of Sambo Anderson, Davy Gray, William Lee, Kate, Ona Judge, Nancy Carter Quander, Edmund Parker, Caroline Branham, and the Washingtons, this eight-part podcast series explores the lives and labors of Mount Vernon’s enslaved community, and how we interpret slavery at the historic site today.

Intertwined is narrated by Brenda Parker and is a production of the Mount Vernon Ladies’ Association and CD Squared.

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Learn more, subscribe to the show, and find full transcripts, show notes, and bibliographies available at www.georgewashingtonpodcast.com.

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Episode 3: Revolutions

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Episode 3: “Revolutions”

William Lee was George Washington’s trusted enslaved valet. For over two decades, he attended Washington from early morning until nightfall. In times of peace and war, Lee rode with Washington through Mount Vernon’s fields, out to his western lands, and into battle against the British. In this episode, we follow Lee’s journey to investigate revolutions in Mount Vernon’s agricultural life, American politics, and Washington’s views on slavery.

Featuring:

Dr. Bruce Ragsdale, former Director of the Federal Judicial History Office
Jessie MacLeod, Associate Curator, George Washington’s Mount Vernon
Dr. Cassandra Good, Assistant Professor of History, Marymount University
Dr. Lynn Price Robbins, historian of George and Martha Washington and Early America
Ramin Ganeshram, Executive Director, Westport Museum for History and Culture

Full transcripts, show notes, and bibliographies available at www.georgewashingtonpodcast.com.