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After 1783 is effectively farming on the public stage. He is closely being watched by both europeans and americans. Celebrating is washington with a plow. A farmer doing the public good. The notion of the public that frames many of the expectations of washington as a farmer he places greater emphasis on the specific benefits of the agricultural improvements he introduces. Those expectations also frame his new reckoning with slavery throughout the years following the revolutionary war. It is here in his life as a farmer more than in any other dimension of his life that we can discern how washin...