1828-08-05, Unnamed, Labor (Domestic)

Title: 1828-08-05, Unnamed, Labor (Domestic)
Description: An enslaved person waited for students, cleaned their shoes, made fires, and cleaned the academic buildings.

Partial Transcript: "Resolved, That an additional servant shall be employed, whose duty it shall be, with the one already employed, to wait, on the students, clean their shoes and boots, to make their fires and to cleanse the College Buildings, for the payment of whom there shall be an additional assessment of one dollar per ann. on each student residing in College. And thereafter it shall be the duty of the Faculty to prohibit all other Colored persons from entering the College Buildings for any purpose whatsoever except by special permission from one of the Body."
Event Type: Labor: Domestic
Action Status: Completed
Date: 5 August 1828
Date Certainty: Inferred
Location: University of Georgia Campus
Source: Board of Trustees Minutes, Vol. II, 1817-1835; Page 186
Related Event: 1828-08-05, Unnamed, Commercial Transaction (Enslaved hire)
Freedom Status: Enslaved
Author: Asbury Hull
Organization: Board of Trustees
Task Performed: To wait, on the students, clean their shoes and boots, to make their fires and to cleanse the College Buildings.

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