"George Washington in Barbados?" Topic

"In November 2022, I accompanied three colleagues on a trip to the University of the West Indies at Cave Hill, Barbados to explore a possible study abroad partnership. As a part of the visit, Head of the Department of History and Philosophy Dr. Henderson Carter took us on a day-long tour of historic sites on the island. One of our brief stops was at the George Washington house. According to the US National Archives' "Founders Online," some historians once suggested that the house standing there now was not the house the Washingtons stayed in during his visit in the 1750s because it does not align with the architecture of the period and hurricanes hit the area hard in 1780 and 1831. However, it has been a tourist site associated with George Washington since the early 1900s. Further, historians worked in the 1990s to confirm the house's location, culminating in a visit by Bill and Hillary Clinton in 1997.[1] The Bajan[2] narrative highlights how Barbados left an impression on a young Washington, in his physical body through exposure and survival from smallpox and some of his military knowledge used later in the war for independence. The following article outlines the connected and comparative histories the George Washington house deals with in relation to the history of Washington's experiences in two slave societies, the transnational history of disease and inoculation in the American Revolution, and knowledge of the British military…"

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