In 1815, French clockmaker Jacques Dubuc sent advertisements to Baltimore for this mantle clock, available in two sizes and featuring a “statue of the great Washington” fashioned after a popular print of the general heading to battle. The inscription, “First in War, First in Peace, First in the Hearts of his Countrymen,” champions George Washington as Revolutionary War general, politician, and founding father of the United States. But this was only part of Washington’s identity. At Mount Vernon, his plantation south of Washington, D.C., the first president enslaved over 577 people in his lifetime. His political and military successes only protected the rights of free, white, land-holding men. After Washington’s death in 1799, commemorative objects and images were displayed by households who benefited from such racial and economic privileges.