Mount Airy Plantation is a restaurant in a large, old house down a long, tree-lined drive. George Washington ate in the house and slept there when his stepson, the child of Martha Custis Washington, ...

Prologue -- Mesopotamia versus Mount Airy : the demographic contrast -- Sarah Affir and her Mesopotamia family -- Winney Grimshaw and her Mount Airy family -- "Dreadful idlers" in the Mesopotamia cane ...

The study of slavery has enjoyed a high scholarly priority in the United States over the past half-century because many believe that the slave experience holds the key to explaining the persistence of ...