Excerpt from Famous Presidents: Washington, Jefferson, Madison, Lincoln, GrantAugustine Washington had large plantations and many negro slaves to work them. So George was not obliged to split wood, drive cows to pastur'e, feed pigs and chickens, and hoe in the garden, as most farmers' sons must do. Still he was not an idle boy, for there are always a great many things for boys to do.It was a very pleasant place where he lived. There were beautiful trees and gardens around the house, and wide verandas upon each side of it. Not far from the house were the cabins for the negroes and the great tobacco sheds, where the tobacco was hung from poles to dry in the warm air and sunshine. Farther back were barns, granaries, and storehouses, for there were many people to be fed and nearly everything was raised on the farm. The only place where they could buy food, clothing, shoes or medicine, was in England, and it took a long time for sailing vessels to make the voyage there and back.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.