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You can order at History Press as well as Amazon, Barnes and Noble and other on-line retailers. I will send you a signed copy for $23, a little extra to cover shipping. I will send you both Slave Labor in the Capital and Through a Fiery Trial for $40. Send a check to me at PO Box 63, Wellesley Island, NY 13640-0063.

My lectures at Sotterley Plantation in St. Mary's County, Maryland, on September 23, 2015, and the DAR Library on December 5 are now blog posts below listed under book talks. The talk I gave at the Politics and Prose Bookstore on February 28, 2015, along with Heather Butts, author African American Medicine in Washington, was taped by the bookstore. Take a listen.

Thursday, November 13, 2014

Commissioners to Hoban 11 April 1799

"thirteen sawyers for a whole year played the same game"
page 112 Slave Labor in the Capital

These are images of photocopies of the letterbook copy of the commissioners' 11 April 1799 letter to James Hoban accusing him of poorly supervising carpenters and sawyers, not preventing the theft of building materials, and thwarting Joseph Middleton's contract to make window shutters. The carpenters were free workers. The sawyers were hired slaves.













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