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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.

Sunday, November 16, 2014

Commissioners object to master recalling two slaves

"They deemed a slave only a laborer and easily replaced by another slave."

Quote from Slave Labor in the Capitol page 32 referring to the following letterbook copy of Commissioners to Millard:


Based on his name being on many legal documents in St. Mary's County, I speculated that E.J. Millard was a lawyer living in the county seat. I welcome any information about him and while I can't change the book, I can share new information here.

As I write this now, it strikes me that the commissioners referring to "Tom and Joe now at the President's house" is added evidence that the laborers had camps near both the President's house and Capitol.

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