Hello Henry,

When do you expect your book to be published ? ...and by whom ?
~malinda

> For my ongoing research on George Washington I have been going through
> the colonial era apprenticeship records in Fairfax and Westmoreland,
> where members of the Washington family sat on courts and vestries.  I
> found a basic distinction in the treatment of apprentices --white
> orphans and "bastards" were taught reading, writing, and a useful trade;
> mixed-race apprentices (free because their white mothers were free) were
> not taught anything--they were routed to the lowest rung of the laboring
> class.
>
> Henry Wiencek
> Charlottesville
>
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