1826-08-02, Unnamed, Labor (Domestic)

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Title
1826-08-02, Unnamed, Labor (Domestic)
Description
An enslaved person cleaned the rooms of select academic buildings at the University of Georgia once a week. If he is unable to complete this task, more servants would be hired to complete the cleaning.

Partial Transcript: "That frequent scouring of the rooms be required of the College servant, and in case he should be incompetent to perform all such duty, that over servants may be employed to perform such service at the expense of the occupants of the room requiring it."
Event Type
Labor: Domestic
Action Status
Completed
Date
2 August 1826
Date Certainty
Inferred
Freedom Status
Enslaved
Author
Asbury Hull
Organization
Board of Trustees
Task Performed
Cleaning academic buildings
Item sets
Labor
Site pages
Map & Timeline

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