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• 1860, Unnamed, Female, Labor (Domestic)
  Two enslaved females served as cooks at Henry Hull's residence. Partial Transcript: "Two women — one aged — were cooks."
• 1860, Lewis, Male, Labor
  Lewis, an enslaved man, worked for his enslaver, John H. Christy, at the Southern Watchman where he would crank the presser. Partial Transcript: "Lewis was a slave of John H. Christy and his business was to turn the crank when the Southern Watchman went to press.
• 1855, Rob Roy, Male, Labor (Domestic)
  Rob Roy, an enslaved man owned by General Edward Harden, worked as a valet, driver, butler, and office boy. Partial Transcript: "Rob Roy was General Harden's valet, driver, butler and office boy."
• 1860, Billy Hull, Male, Labor (Artisanal)
  Billy, an enslaved man, worked as a carpenter in Athens, Georgia. Partial Transcript: "Of the older generation Billy and Davy Hull were well known carpenters."
• 1860, Unnamed, Labor (Agricultural)
  Enslaved children gathered blackberries, apples, hickory nuts, and chinquapin on Henry Hull's plantation. Partial Transcript: "And the little niggers who picked blackberries and climbed the trees for red June apples, or gathered the brown hickory nuts, and the black eyed chinquepin."
• 1860, Bill, Male, Labor (Domestic)
  Bill, an enslaved man, worked on Henry Hull's plantation. He cut wood for the house fires, sharpened and cleaned knifes, and cleaned boots. Partial Transcript: "And one legged Bill, who cut the wood for the house fires and rubbed the knives and cleaned the boots"
• 1860, Squire, Male, Labor (Domestic)
  Squire, an enslaved man, worked on Henry Hull's plantation. He mended plantation shoes and wove cotton baskets. Partial Transcript: "Squire who had many a tale to tell as he mended the plantation shoes or wove the cotton baskets of the smooth white oak splits."
• 1860, Little Buff, Male, Labor (Agricultural)
  Little Buff, an enslaved man, worked on Henry Hull's plantation, and was noted for cutting down trees in the woods. Partial Transcript: "And Little Buff, how the chips did fly from his axe as he "downed" the tall hickory in the woods."
• 1860, Sam, Male, Labor (Domestic)
  Sam Harris Watkins, an enslaved man, served as the college bell ringer, and made fires in the professor's rooms, and attended to Old and New College at the University of Georgia. Partial Transcript: "Old Sam — by birth Harris but by freedom Watkins — was the college bell ringer. He made the fires in the professors' rooms, sometimes swept them out and was at the beck and call of every student in Old and New College."
• 1860, Davy Hull, Male, Labor (Artisanal)
  Davy, an enslaved man, shingled a house near the University while making conversation with University students. Partial Transcript: "Davy was a natural wit and had a keen sense of humor. The students called him doctor. Once a dozen of them passed him while shingling a house near the street, and began greeting him."
• 1860, Davy Hull, Male, Labor (Artisanal)
  Davy Hull, an enslaved man, was a well-known carpenter, and worked as a college carpenter. Partial Transcript: "[Davy] was for years the college carpenter."
• 1860, Malinda, Female, Labor (Domestic)
  Malinda, an enslaved woman owned by Henry Hull, worked primarily in the kitchen, cooking and baking for the Hull family. Partial Transcript: "And old Aunt Malinda with a bandanna neatly tied around her head and a kerchief pinned across her ample bosom. What visions of hoe cake and broiled meat rind butter milk, fresh from the churn used to greet us as we came into her kitchen from a long- tramp."
• 1860, Bart, Male, Labor (Agricultural)
  Bart, an enslaved man, worked on Henry Hull's plantation, and used the cradle in the wheat field. Partial Transcript: "And there was Big Bart of stalwart frame who could cut a wider swathe than any of them as he swung the cradle in the wheat field."
• 1860, Mike, Male, Labor (Agricultural)
  Mike, an enslaved man owned by Henry Hull, worked in the cotton fields along with the other hands on the plantation. Partial Transcript: "I well remember old Uncle Mike. The patriarch and foreman of the plantation. No hired overseer gave him orders. To his master alone was he answerable. With his white wooley head and benign black face, the asperity of his dignity softened by the courtliness of his manner, he would call up the hands with his cheerful "come boys!" and lead them to the cotton field."
• 1820, Joe, Male, Labor (Agricultural)
  Joe, an enslaved man owned by Mr. Thomas of Athens, packed cotton bales that could weigh up to 300lbs. Partial Transcript: " The first cotton gin brought to Athens was set up by Mr. Thomas... Here all the cotton made in the neighborhood was ginned for some years; Mr. Thomas buying it in the seed from farmers and himself preparing it for market. He had a tall powerful negro named Joe, who was looked upon with some regard because he could pack a round bale weighing 300 lbs. in a day."
• 1810, Dick Cary, Male, Labor (Domestic)
  Dick Cary worked as a bell ringer and a college servant at the University of Georgia. Partial Transcript: "Many a student of Dr. Waddell's day will remember old Dick Cary, the bell ringer and college servant."
• 1857, Lucius Henry Holsey, Male, Labor (Agricultural)
  Holsey worked for Richard Malcolm Johnston as a gardener. Partial Transcript: "As an important part of his effects, I was carried along with him and his family as carriage driver, house servant, and gardener."
• 1857, Lucius Henry Holsey, Male, Labor (Domestic)
  Holsey worked for Richard Malcolm Johnston as a carriage driver and a house servant. Partial Transcript: "As an important part of his effects, I was carried along with him and his family as carriage driver, house servant, and gardener."
• 1846-12-25, Unnamed, Labor (Agricultural)
  An enslaved person was employed to work the Botanical Garden in Athens, Georgia, and assist the head gardener. Partial Transcript: "Resolved that the Chairman & the President of the College be [authorized] to employ a gardener and to hire a servant for the garden upon such terms as they may deem best for the interest of the garden."
• 1844-12-04, Unnamed, Labor (Agricultural)
  An enslaved person was hired to work the Botanical Gardens in Athens, Georgia. Partial Transcript: "Resolved that the President & Faculty be authorized to provide for the keeping of the Botanical Garden next year, by the employment of some white man,or otherwise, provided the expenses thereof shall not exceed one hundred and fifty dollars and the use of the house in the garden besides the hire of the servant."
• 1844-11-14, Unnamed, Labor
  Two enslaved persons leased by the University of Georgia aided E. L. Thomas, a local planner, with retracing lots and setting up stakes around the University campus. Partial Transcript: "Resolved, that Mr. Thomas retrace the lines around the square 3 ½ lots, and set up new stakes at the corners, and that he have the use of the two College servants, to aid him therein, and to receive for his compensation the wood in the streets and for other work he be allowed $5 per day and use of the servants."
• 1842-12-17, Patrick, Male, Labor (Agricultural)
  Patrick, an enslaved man, was a laborer in the Botanical Garden. Partial Transcript: "Resolved that the negro man Patrick be retained as labourer in the Botanical Garden for the ensuing year at the same rates as for the present, to wit, $100.00"
• 1855-11-06, Unnamed, Labor (Domestic)
  Enslaved persons repaired blinds, mended plastering, and replaced glass as part of annual repairs across the University campus. Partial Transcript: "The usual annual repairs, such as whitewashing - mending of plastering, repairing [fireplaces] of hearths - setting glass & repairing blinds - have been reflected during the vacation & by the agency of the Col. servants, and the direction given by myself principally at an expense of some 10 or 12 dollars."
• 1855-08-01, Unnamed, Labor (Agricultural)
  The Board of Trustees hired workers to attend to the upkeep of the Botanical Garden for $500. Partial Transcript: "That the Prudential Committee be constructed to use all possible economy in keeping the Gard in order, consistency with a proper degree of neatness & tasts in its cultivation, & in the preservation of its rare & valuable exotics. Resolved - That the sum of Five hundred dollars ($500) be & the same is hereby appropriated to the Garden."
• 1853-08-01, Unnamed, Labor (Agricultural)
  Enslaved people worked the Botanical Garden, and did not report the conditions to the Board of Trustees. Partial Transcript: "That from the limited time which they have had to devote to the subjects committed to them it is not in their power to report in detail on the present condition of the Garden."