How to buy the book

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, December 10, 2015

The Dazzling Greatness of James Greenleaf in 1794

"Morris was the most famous of the speculators, famed as the Financier of the American Revolution. But in 1794 Greenleaf had the most cash on hand and directed their operations in the city. Only 28 years old in 1793, he had dazzled Europe and America by making huge profits when speculating with Dutch banks on the American Revolutionary War debt."



To help run his Washington operations, James Greenleaf hired his brother-in-law William Cranch. Cranch was also the nephew of Vice President John Adams. In a letter to his father written shortly after arriving in Washington, Cranch described Greenleaf's coterie of French advisers and then extolled Greenleaf. Both Greenleaf and Cranch were from Massachusetts. Cranch replaced Nathaniel Appleton who was too sick to continue working for Greenleaf in Washington. Greenleaf met the Frenchmen during his travels from Europe to the US.






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