This summer I will play games,watch tv,go camping,fishing,hunting and to the coast. I get to play summer baseball and in August I get to go to San Francisco. This will be a big summer vacation!
My school year was fun I enjoyed theslave project but not the other projects. We only had 3 fieldtrips and two parties. the year went by fast sometimes Mr.cosand was nice and sometimes he was mean.
“Hercules (chef).” Wikipedia. nd. Web. 19 Mar. 2010. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hercules_(chef).
Lawler, Edward. “Hercules.” The President’s House in Philadelphia. US history.com, Web. 17 Mar. 2010. <http://www.ushistory.org/presidentshouse/slaves/hercules.htm
Herceules was George Washingtons chef and is also a slave and trys to make him happy and not get his job lost. Hercueles was the head chef at mount vernon virgina in the 1780′s. In November 1790 he was brought to Philadelphia to work in the kitchen of the presidents house of George Washington. Herceules ran away and left his daughter when she was 6 and Herceules became a free man. That all happened on January 15, 1878. Hercules had been married to a dower slave named Lame Alice, a seamstress at Mount Vernon, and they had three children, Richmond (born 1777), Evey (born 1782), and Delia (born 1785). Alice died in 1787, leaving Hercules to raise the children.
When he learned that he was to be transferred to Philadelphia, he asked Washington’s permission to bring his son with him to the President’s House. It is likely that Hercules, Richmond and Christopher shared a divided room on the fourth floor of the main house.
Hercules’s expertise as a cook was appreciated by the Washingtons, and he was given special privileges. It was estimated that he earned “from one to two hundred dollars a year” by selling the leftovers from the presidential kitchen. According to Custis, Hercules was a “celebrated dandy,” and spent this money on expensive clothing and luxuries. A vigorous portrait attributed to Gilbert Stuart is thought to depict him. Several years after his wifes death Herceules seems to have another child from another woman but her identity and if they married is unrecorded. Herceules escaped to freedom in March 1797, at the end of Washingtons presidency, either on the morning they were to return to Mount Vernon, or the night before.
Herceules ran away from Washington so he could be free and have more friends and family. And to have his own home and not make Washington food and work in his kitchen and that is how he became a free man.
A few years later he dissapeared. Washington and his bounty hunters never found him and nobody knew where he went and was to be never found again. Then Martha Washington had died.
Bibliography
“Hercules (chef).” Wikipedia. nd. Web. 19 Mar. 2010. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hercules_(chef).
Lawler, Edward. “Hercules.” The President’s House in Philadelphia. US history.com, Web. 17 Mar. 2010. <http://www.ushistory.org/presidentshouse/slaves/hercules.htm
I am researching Hercules, Washington’s chef because we are researching about slavery and the under ground railroad. Down there is where I got my picture and the website it came from.
http://www.philly.com/philly/hot_topics/84718777.html