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Cartouche from A Map of the Most Inhabited part of Virginia containing the whole Province of Maryland…, Joshua Fry & Peter Jefferson, 1776. Gift: Jess and Grace Pavey Fund, 2005 [MAP-6475]. MVLA.

Bring your lunch and learn about Library Fellow Whitney Nell Stewart's research project, Bitter Vines: Wine and Slavery in the United States. Using the resources at the George Washington Presidential Library, Stewart is continuing her research on the importance of the relationship between wine and slavery in the early United States, looking particularly at viticulture and vinification at Mount Vernon.

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Whitney Nell Stewart is a historian of slavery and the American South. A passionate public historian, she works with museums, historic sites, and organizations, including the National Park Service. 

Stewart is an assistant professor of history and faculty of the Edith O'Donnell Institute of Art History at the University of Texas at Dallas. She has written and edited several articles, essays, and anthologies, and is author of This Is Our Home: Slavery and Struggle on Southern Plantations (University of North Carolina Press, 2023).