Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. The Mother of the Father: Memorializing Mary Washington in Antebellum Virginia
2. "She Did Not Come Up to 'Ole Mistis' in Mammy's Eyes!": Relationships Between the Women, Enslaved, and Free
3. Service and Sacrifice: Martha Washington
4. "The Tender Heart of the Chief Could Not Support the Scene": General Washington, Margaret Arnold, and the Treason at West Point
5. George Washington and Phillis Wheatley: The Indispensable Man and the Poet Laureate of the American Revolution
6. Abigail Adams and the President's Portrait
7. "You are Welcome to Eat at Her Table": Elizabeth Willing Powel's World of Philadelphia
8. "I Had Friends among the Colored People of the Town": The Enslaved Women of the President's Household and Philadelphia's African American Commuinity
9. Invalid Juggernaut: Ann Pamela Cunningham and Her Quest to Save George Washington's Mount Vernon
Notes on Contributors
Index