Resource class Url Title Description Event Type Action Status Date Date Certainty Location Cause Outcome Source Related Event Primary Participant Freedom Status Enslaver Author Additional Participant Leaser Organization Currency Price Task Performed dctype:Event https://onthesegroundsuga.digilabuga.org/s/otg/item/905 1863-02-05, Sam, Male, Labor (Domestic) Demosthenian Society hiring Sam, an enslaved man, to sweep the hall and light fires. Partial transcript: "committee appointed by the President to see Negro Sam and find out for what wages he would agree to keep the hall swept and fire's made and reported through their chairman. They had seen Sam, who had agreed to do the duties above mentioned for one dollar pr. month. A proposition was then made by some member present to accept Sam's proposals. On being put to the house it met with approval." Labor: Domestic https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/546 Completed 1863-02-05 476 904 899 | Transcript page 67 905 | 904 | 903 | 901 685 https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/553 Enslaved 535 902 902 Dollar $1.00 Sweep hall and light fires dctype:Event https://onthesegroundsuga.digilabuga.org/s/otg/item/903 1862-03-15, Sam, Male, Labor (Domestic) The Demosthenian Society decreased Sam's pay for domestic work due to a decrease in student enrollment. Partial transcript: "the com. appointed to investigate the case of Demosthenian Society against negro boy Sam, reported said negro boy has agreed to diminish his charges against the society for attendance on Hall, to $7.00/1.00 per annum a year in consequence of reduction of students" Labor: Domestic https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/546 Completed 1862-03-15 476 899 905 | 904 | 903 | 901 685 https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/553 Enslaved 535 902 902 Dollar $7.00 dctype:Event https://onthesegroundsuga.digilabuga.org/s/otg/item/901 1861-04-13, Sam, Male, Labor (Domestic) The Demosthenian Society diminished Sam's pay for domestic work. Partial transcript: "It was moved that the Treasurer be empowered to buy a new bucket and to diminish Sam's pay, as he is very negligent in his duty." Labor: Domestic https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/546 Completed 1861-04-13 476 899 905 | 904 | 903 | 901 685 https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/553 Enslaved 535 902 902 dctype:Event https://onthesegroundsuga.digilabuga.org/s/otg/item/869 1862, Joe, Male, Labor Joe, an enslaved man, managed the dirt streets in Athens, Georgia, and with this, he had to drive and take care of the town mule that up-kept the streets. Partial Transcript: "The streets were unpaved, of course, muddy in wet weather, and dusty in dry. To keep them in a passable condition, the city owned a mule, a cart, and a few necessary tools... In 1862, the Council hired General Thomas R. R. Cobb's boy Joe 'to work the streets, drive and take care of the town mules - he, the said Cobb, is to board and clothe said boy, and pay all physician's bills, if any." https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/484 Labor https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/546 Completed 1862 525 847 | https://gahistoricnewspapers.galileo.usg.edu/lccn/sn82014069/1862-01-15/ed-1/seq-3/ Issue January 15, 1862 page 3 868 867 https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/553 Enslaved 866 714 Athens City Council dctype:Event https://onthesegroundsuga.digilabuga.org/s/otg/item/822 1831, Unnamed, Male, Labor (Artisanal) Enslaved men repaired the walls of New College after it had burnt down. The wall ultimately fell and killed a student. Partial Transcript: "In 1831, while the workman were engaged in undermining one of the walls of the burnt College, which it will be remembered as four stories high, a young man was lying on the grass at a safe distance from the wall as he supposed, watching the progress of the work, when suddenly it fell and crushed him to death." https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/591 Labor: Artisanal https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/546 Completed 1831 https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/550 Approximate 476 821 | Page 17 https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/553 Enslaved 524 477 dctype:Event https://onthesegroundsuga.digilabuga.org/s/otg/item/819 1826-03-10, Unnamed, Labor (Agricultural) Enslaved people on Moses Waddel's plantation burned wood and sowed oats. Partial Transcript: "After five, [I] went to [the] plantation alone- saw logs burning and a sow in the oats." https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/485 Labor: Agricultural https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/546 Completed 1826-03-10 525 786 | Page 90 https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/553 Enslaved 787 787 dctype:Event https://onthesegroundsuga.digilabuga.org/s/otg/item/817 1826-03-02, Solomon, Male, Labor (Agricultural) Solomon plowed oats on Moses Waddel's plantation. Partial Transcript: "[March] 2nd... saw Solomon plowing oats sowed too thin." https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/485 Labor: Agricultural https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/546 Completed 1826-03-02 525 786 | Page 88 816 https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/553 Enslaved 787 787 Plowing dctype:Event https://onthesegroundsuga.digilabuga.org/s/otg/item/812 1825-04-18, Ned, Male, Labor (Agricultural) Ned, an enslaved man, was sent by Moses Waddel to hive bees for William Sutherland. Partial Transcript: "18 April... sent Ben and Ned to hive bees for William Sutherland." https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/485 Labor: Agricultural https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/546 Completed 1825-04-18 525 786 | Page 42 811 810 https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/553 Enslaved 787 787 Hive bees dctype:Event https://onthesegroundsuga.digilabuga.org/s/otg/item/811 1825-04-18, Ben, Male, Labor (Agricultural) Ben, an enslaved man, was sent by Moses Waddel to hive bees. Partial Transcript: "18 April... sent Ben and Ned to hive bees for William Sutherland." https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/485 Labor: Agricultural https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/546 Completed 1825-04-18 525 786 | Page 42 812 808 https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/553 Enslaved 787 787 Hive bees dctype:Event https://onthesegroundsuga.digilabuga.org/s/otg/item/809 1825-04-18, Ben, Male, Labor (Agricultural) Ben, an enslaved man, installed a fence on the Waddel plantation with the assistance of Moses Waddel. Partial Transcript: " 18 April- Monday- helped old Ben to fence in Walnut field." https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/485 Labor: Agricultural https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/546 Completed 1825-04-18 525 786 | Page 42 808 https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/553 Enslaved 787 787 Installing a fence dctype:Event https://onthesegroundsuga.digilabuga.org/s/otg/item/797 1824-12-15, Unnamed, Labor (Agricultural) Moses Waddel and his enslaved slaughtered and weighed hogs on his plantation. Partial Transcript: "[December] 15th. Wednesday - killed 8 hogs at town - went to plantation and after much trouble, killed 11 there - weighed hogs." https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/485 Labor: Agricultural https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/546 Completed 1824-12-15 525 786 | Page 22 https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/553 Enslaved 787 Slaughtering dctype:Event https://onthesegroundsuga.digilabuga.org/s/otg/item/795 1824-11-26, Edmund, Male, Labor (Agricultural) Edmund worked on Moses Waddel's plantation picking cotton. Partial Transcript: "[November] 26th... went and saw my cotton picking... heard of John Puryear whipping Edmund which disturbed me." https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/485 Labor: Agricultural https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/546 Completed 1824-11-26 525 786 | Page 19-20 796 794 https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/553 Enslaved 787 787 dctype:Event https://onthesegroundsuga.digilabuga.org/s/otg/item/793 1824-11-22, Unnamed, Female, Labor (Agricultural) Moses Waddel observed enslaved women picking cotton at his plantation around a fire in the field. Partial Transcript: "[November] 22nd... went early to [the] plantation [and] saw women picking cotton by the fire in [the] field." https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/485 Labor: Agricultural https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/546 Completed 1824-11-22 525 786 | Page 18 https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/553 Enslaved 787 787 Cotton picking dctype:Event https://onthesegroundsuga.digilabuga.org/s/otg/item/792 1824-11-06, Unnamed, Labor (Agricultural) Moses Waddel watched as his enslaved harvested and hauled pumpkins on his plantation. Partial Transcript: "[November] 6th Saturday... went to [my] plantation with S. Brown [and] saw pumpkins hauled [and] returned - saw 2 wagons unloaded for Mr. Graham." https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/485 Labor: Agricultural https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/546 Completed 1824-11-06 525 786 | Page 15 https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/553 Enslaved 787 787 dctype:Event https://onthesegroundsuga.digilabuga.org/s/otg/item/791 1824-10-26, Billy Hull, Male, Labor (Domestic) Moses Waddel instructed Billy to ring the bell on the University campus. Partial Transcript: "[October] 26. Rainy morning- spoke to Billy Hull to ring the bell." https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/486 Labor: Domestic https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/546 Completed 1824-10-26 476 786 | Page 12 703 https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/553 Enslaved 620 787 787 477 bell ringer dctype:Event https://onthesegroundsuga.digilabuga.org/s/otg/item/789 1824-10-01, Unnamed, Labor (Agricultural) Moses Waddel and Nisbet observed at Waddel's plantation enslaved people clean the barn and spread cotton. https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/485 Labor: Agricultural https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/546 Completed 1824-10-01 525 786 | Page 7 https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/553 Enslaved 787 787 Barn cleaning and spreading cotton dctype:Event https://onthesegroundsuga.digilabuga.org/s/otg/item/788 1824-09-28, Unnamed, Labor (Agricultural) Enslaved persons picked cotton on Moses Waddels' plantation. Partial Transcript: "Tuesday Septemeber 28... went [with] Mr. Nisbet to my plantation [and] saw cotton picking." https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/485 Labor: Agricultural https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/546 Completed 1824-09-28 525 786 | Page 6 https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/553 Enslaved 787 787 Cotton picking dctype:Event https://onthesegroundsuga.digilabuga.org/s/otg/item/753 1827-01-26, Willis, Male, Labor (Artisanal) Willis, an enslaved man, worked as a skilled blacksmith in Athens, Georgia. Partial Transcript: "The hire of a Negro man by the name of Willis, an excellent Blacksmith, about 22 years of age, until Christmas next, and one set of Blacksmith's tools; levied on as property of Ausbourn M. Gathright to satisfy in favor of John Loving, vs Ausbourn M. Gathright." https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/591 Labor: Artisanal https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/546 Completed 1827-01-26 525 746 743 | https://gahistoricnewspapers.galileo.usg.edu/lccn/sn85027027/1827-01-26/ed-1/seq-1/ Issue January 26, 1827, page 1 746 745 dctype:Event https://onthesegroundsuga.digilabuga.org/s/otg/item/741 1854, Willis, Male, Labor Willis assisted his enslaver, William L. Mitchell with carrying a table and Bible for the "Mitchell Thunderbolts" to support the Confederate Constitution. Partial Transcript: "Colonel William L. Mitchell came riding along on his pony "Lightning." Behind him came his negro with a table on his head. Within the -table was a large Bible and a roster of the company. Everybody wondered what was going to happen. Old Willis set the table down and laid the Bible in the center. Colonel Mitchell took up the roster of the company" https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/484 Labor https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/546 Completed 1854 525 619 | Page 274 740 https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/553 Enslaved 524 618 dctype:Event https://onthesegroundsuga.digilabuga.org/s/otg/item/726 1860, Unnamed, Male, Labor A one-legged enslaved man, possibly named Bill, did general utility work at Henry Hull's residence. Partial Transcript: " Two women — one aged — were cooks, one was the laundress, one the nurse, three sempstresses, a house- maid, a carriage driver who was also the gardener, a one-legged general utility man and a lot of children." https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/484 Labor https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/546 Completed 1860 https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/551 Inferred 525 619 | Page 284 720 https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/553 Enslaved 620 618 Utility work dctype:Event https://onthesegroundsuga.digilabuga.org/s/otg/item/725 1860, Unnamed, Labor An enslaved person served as the carriage driver and the gardener at the Henry Hull residence. Partial Transcript: " Two women — one aged — were cooks, one was the laundress, one the nurse, three sempstresses, a house- maid, a carriage driver who was also the gardener, a one-legged general utility man and a lot of children." https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/484 Labor https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/546 Completed 1860 https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/550 Approximate 525 619 | Page 284 720 https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/553 Enslaved 620 618 Carriage driver, Gardener dctype:Event https://onthesegroundsuga.digilabuga.org/s/otg/item/724 1860, Unnamed, Female, Labor (Domestic) An enslaved woman served as the housemaid at the Henry Hull residence. Partial Transcript: " Two women — one aged — were cooks, one was the laundress, one the nurse, three sempstresses, a house- maid, a carriage driver who was also the gardener, a one-legged general utility man and a lot of children." https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/486 Labor: Domestic https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/546 Completed 1860 https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/550 Approximate 525 619 | https://archive.org/details/annalsofathens00hull/page/283/mode/2up Page 283 720 https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/553 Enslaved 620 618 dctype:Event https://onthesegroundsuga.digilabuga.org/s/otg/item/723 1860, Unnamed, Female, Labor (Domestic) Three enslaved woman served as the sempstresses at the Henry Hull residence. Partial Transcript: " Two women — one aged — were cooks, one was the laundress, one the nurse, three sempstresses, a house- maid, a carriage driver who was also the gardener, a one-legged general utility man and a lot of children." https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/486 Labor: Domestic https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/546 Completed 1860 https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/551 Inferred 525 619 | Page 284 720 https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/553 Enslaved 620 618 Seamstress dctype:Event https://onthesegroundsuga.digilabuga.org/s/otg/item/722 1860, Unnamed, Female, Labor (Domestic) An enslaved woman served as the nurse at the Henry Hull residence. Partial Transcript: " Two women — one aged — were cooks, one was the laundress, one the nurse, three sempstresses, a house- maid, a carriage driver who was also the gardener, a one-legged general utility man and a lot of children." https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/486 Labor: Domestic https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/546 Completed 1860 https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/551 Inferred 525 619 | Page 284 720 https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/553 Enslaved 620 618 Nurse dctype:Event https://onthesegroundsuga.digilabuga.org/s/otg/item/721 1860, Unnamed, Female, Labor (Domestic) An enslaved woman served as the laundress at the Henry Hull residence. Partial Transcript: " Two women — one aged — were cooks, one was the laundress, one the nurse, three sempstresses, a house- maid, a carriage driver who was also the gardener, a one-legged general utility man and a lot of children." https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/486 Labor: Domestic https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/546 Completed 1860 https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/551 Inferred 525 619 | https://archive.org/details/annalsofathens00hull/page/283/mode/2up Page 283 720 https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/553 Enslaved 620 618 Laundry dctype:Event https://onthesegroundsuga.digilabuga.org/s/otg/item/719 1860, Unnamed, Female, Labor (Domestic) Two enslaved females served as cooks at Henry Hull's residence. Partial Transcript: "Two women — one aged — were cooks." https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/486 Labor: Domestic https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/546 Completed 1860 https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/551 Inferred 525 | https://archive.org/details/annalsofathens00hull/page/283/mode/2up Page 283 619 720 https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/553 Enslaved 620 618 dctype:Event https://onthesegroundsuga.digilabuga.org/s/otg/item/717 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. https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/484 Labor https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/546 Completed 1860 https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/552 Questionable 525 619 | https://archive.org/details/annalsofathens00hull/page/177/mode/2up Page 177 718 715 https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/553 Enslaved 714 618 dctype:Event https://onthesegroundsuga.digilabuga.org/s/otg/item/709 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." https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/486 Labor: Domestic https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/546 Completed 1855 https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/552 Questionable 525 619 | https://archive.org/details/annalsofathens00hull/page/176/mode/2up Page 176 707 https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/553 Enslaved 708 618 Valet, driver, butler, office boy dctype:Event https://onthesegroundsuga.digilabuga.org/s/otg/item/704 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." https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/591 Labor: Artisanal https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/546 Completed 1860 https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/552 Questionable 525 619 | https://archive.org/details/annalsofathens00hull/page/174/mode/2up Page 174 682 703 618 681 dctype:Event https://onthesegroundsuga.digilabuga.org/s/otg/item/702 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." https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/485 Labor: Agricultural https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/546 Completed 1860 https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/552 Questionable 525 619 | https://archive.org/details/annalsofathens00hull/page/173/mode/2up Page 173 https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/553 Enslaved 620 618 dctype:Event https://onthesegroundsuga.digilabuga.org/s/otg/item/701 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" https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/486 Labor: Domestic https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/546 Completed 1860 https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/552 Questionable 525 619 | https://archive.org/details/annalsofathens00hull/page/173/mode/2up Page 173 700 https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/553 Enslaved 620 618 dctype:Event https://onthesegroundsuga.digilabuga.org/s/otg/item/699 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." https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/486 Labor: Domestic https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/546 Completed 1860 https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/552 Questionable 525 619 | https://archive.org/details/annalsofathens00hull/page/173/mode/2up Page 173 698 https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/553 Enslaved 620 618 dctype:Event https://onthesegroundsuga.digilabuga.org/s/otg/item/697 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." https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/485 Labor: Agricultural https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/546 Completed 1860 https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/552 Questionable 525 619 | https://archive.org/details/annalsofathens00hull/page/172/mode/2up Page 172 696 https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/553 Enslaved 620 618 dctype:Event https://onthesegroundsuga.digilabuga.org/s/otg/item/686 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." https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/486 Labor: Domestic https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/546 Completed 1860 https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/550 Approximate 476 619 | https://archive.org/details/annalsofathens00hull/page/175/mode/2up Pages 175-176 685 https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/553 Enslaved 618 dctype:Event https://onthesegroundsuga.digilabuga.org/s/otg/item/683 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." https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/591 Labor: Artisanal https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/546 Completed 1860 https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/550 Approximate 525 619 | https://archive.org/details/annalsofathens00hull/page/174/mode/2up Page 174 681 https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/553 Enslaved 618 dctype:Event https://onthesegroundsuga.digilabuga.org/s/otg/item/682 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." https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/591 Labor: Artisanal https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/546 Completed 1860 https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/550 Approximate 476 619 | https://archive.org/details/annalsofathens00hull/page/174/mode/2up Page 174 681 https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/553 Enslaved 618 dctype:Event https://onthesegroundsuga.digilabuga.org/s/otg/item/679 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." https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/486 Labor: Domestic https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/546 Completed 1860 https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/552 Questionable 525 619 | https://archive.org/details/annalsofathens00hull/page/173/mode/2up Page 173 678 https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/553 Enslaved 620 618 dctype:Event https://onthesegroundsuga.digilabuga.org/s/otg/item/677 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." https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/485 Labor: Agricultural https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/546 Completed 1860 https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/552 Questionable 525 619 | https://archive.org/details/annalsofathens00hull/page/172/mode/2up Page 172 676 https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/553 Enslaved 620 618 dctype:Event https://onthesegroundsuga.digilabuga.org/s/otg/item/675 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." https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/485 Labor: Agricultural https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/546 Completed 1860 https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/552 Questionable 525 619 | https://archive.org/details/annalsofathens00hull/page/172/mode/2up Page 172 674 https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/553 Enslaved 620 618 dctype:Event https://onthesegroundsuga.digilabuga.org/s/otg/item/630 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." https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/485 Labor: Agricultural https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/546 Completed 1820 https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/552 Questionable 525 619 | https://archive.org/details/annalsofathens00hull/page/79/mode/2up Page 79 629 https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/553 Enslaved Mr. Thomas 618 dctype:Event https://onthesegroundsuga.digilabuga.org/s/otg/item/625 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." https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/486 Labor: Domestic https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/546 Completed 1810 https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/552 Questionable 476 619 | https://archive.org/details/annalsofathens00hull/page/33/mode/2up Page 33 626 624 https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/553 Enslaved 622 618 477 Bell ringing dctype:Event https://onthesegroundsuga.digilabuga.org/s/otg/item/599 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." https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/485 Labor: Agricultural https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/546 Completed 1857 https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/550 Approximate 525 597 594 | https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=emu.010001225938&view=1up&seq=24&skin=2021 Page 16 598 593 https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/553 Enslaved 595 593 Gardening dctype:Event https://onthesegroundsuga.digilabuga.org/s/otg/item/598 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." https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/486 Labor: Domestic https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/546 Completed 1857 https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/550 Approximate 525 597 594 | https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=emu.010001225938&view=1up&seq=24&skin=2021 Page 16 599 593 https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/553 Enslaved 595 593 Carriage driver and house servant dctype:Event https://onthesegroundsuga.digilabuga.org/s/otg/item/541 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." https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/485 Labor: Agricultural https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/546 Completed 1846-12-25 531 | 476 540 512 | Page 52 540 https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/553 Enslaved 524 477 528 Tend to the Botanical Garden dctype:Event https://onthesegroundsuga.digilabuga.org/s/otg/item/537 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." https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/485 Labor: Agricultural https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/548 Potential 1844-12-04 531 | 476 536 512 | Page 30 536 https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/553 Enslaved 533 477 528 Keeping up the Botanical Garden dctype:Event https://onthesegroundsuga.digilabuga.org/s/otg/item/532 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." https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/484 Labor https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/546 Completed 1844-11-14 476 512 | Page 28 https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/553 Enslaved 475 477 528 Aid E. L. Thomas dctype:Event https://onthesegroundsuga.digilabuga.org/s/otg/item/529 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" https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/485 Labor: Agricultural https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/546 Completed 1842-12-17 476 | 531 527 512 609 https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/553 Enslaved 475 477 528 $100 Laborer in the Botanical Garden dctype:Event https://onthesegroundsuga.digilabuga.org/s/otg/item/511 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." https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/486 Labor: Domestic https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/546 Completed 1855-11-06 476 510 493 | Page 277 510 https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/553 Enslaved 475 466 $10 or $12 Annual repairs including mending plaster, setting glass, and repairing blinds dctype:Event https://onthesegroundsuga.digilabuga.org/s/otg/item/509 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." https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/485 Labor: Agricultural https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/546 Completed 1855-08-01 476 | 531 508 493 | Page 265 508 https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/553 Enslaved 475 466 $500 Keeping the Garden in order dctype:Event https://onthesegroundsuga.digilabuga.org/s/otg/item/506 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." https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/485 Labor: Agricultural https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/546 Completed 1853-08-01 https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/551 Inferred 476 | 531 493 | Page 230 https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/553 Enslaved 475 466 Tending to the Garden dctype:Event https://onthesegroundsuga.digilabuga.org/s/otg/item/502 1839-08-07, Unnamed, Male, Labor (Domestic) Enslaved men repaired the new college building, and paint the President's House and the Chapel Cupola. Partial Transcript: "Resolved That the Prudential Committee be directed without delay, to [employ] able workman to repair the outside of the new college building in such a manner as they may deem most proper, and also procure a Painter & have the President’s House and the Chapel Cupola repainted." https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/486 Labor: Domestic https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/546 Completed 1839-08-07 https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/551 Inferred 476 501 493 | Page 69 501 https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/553 Enslaved 475 477 466 Repair the outside of the new college building and paint the President's House and the Chapel Cupola dctype:Event https://onthesegroundsuga.digilabuga.org/s/otg/item/497 1835-08-05, Unnamed, Male, Labor (Artisanal) An enslaved was hired to examine and potentially repair the roof on Old College on the University campus. Partial Transcript: "Resolved That a competent workman be employed to examine said roof, & if in his opinion it can be repaired, The [Prudential] Committee be requested to contract for said repairs, and have the same done with out delay, but if the Presidential Committee should think upon such examination, that the said roof require new shingling, that they be authorized, make a contract for that purpose, & have the work effected as soon as it can be done with convenience." https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/591 Labor: Artisanal https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/548 Potential 1835-08-05 476 496 493 | Page 17 496 https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/553 Enslaved 475 477 466 Examine and Repair the roof of Old College dctype:Event https://onthesegroundsuga.digilabuga.org/s/otg/item/487 1828-08-05, Unnamed, Labor (Domestic) 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." https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/486 Labor: Domestic https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/546 Completed 1828-08-05 https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/551 Inferred 476 472 | https://dlg.usg.edu/record/guan_ua02-042_006-002?canvas=93&x=3769&y=2187&w=9285 Page 186 486 https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/553 Enslaved 475 466 To wait, on the students, clean their shoes and boots, to make their fires and to cleanse the College Buildings. dctype:Event https://onthesegroundsuga.digilabuga.org/s/otg/item/483 1827-08-02, Unnamed, Labor An enslaved person cleaned the Philosophical and Chemical academic buildings. Partial Transcript: "Due Prof. Jackson for the use of his servant in Philosophical and Chemical Apartments as per Resolution of the Board: $75.00" https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/486 Labor: Domestic https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/546 Completed 1827-08-02 https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/550 Approximate 476 482 472 | https://dlg.usg.edu/record/guan_ua02-042_006-002?canvas=84&x=3157&y=2293&w=9225 Page 168 482 https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/553 Enslaved 475 466 $75.00 dctype:Event https://onthesegroundsuga.digilabuga.org/s/otg/item/481 1826-08-02, Unnamed, Labor (Domestic) 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." https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/486 Labor: Domestic https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/546 Completed 1826-08-02 https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/551 Inferred 476 479 472 | https://dlg.usg.edu/record/guan_ua02-042_006-002?canvas=80&x=3511&y=2296&w=9465 Page 161 479 https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/553 Enslaved 475 466 Cleaning academic buildings dctype:Event https://onthesegroundsuga.digilabuga.org/s/otg/item/480 1826-08-02, Unnamed, Labor (Domestic) An enslaved person cleaned academic buildings, including the Library, Philosophical, and Chemical academic buildings, on campus. Partial Transcript: "Your Committee observe that a college servant is maintained at the expense of your treasury. His services are greatly needed in cleaning the buildings." https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/486 Labor: Domestic https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/548 Potential 1826-08-02 https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/551 Inferred 476 478 472 | https://dlg.usg.edu/record/guan_ua02-042_006-002?canvas=80&x=3654&y=2409&w=9465 Page 160 478 https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/553 Enslaved 475 466 Cleaning academic buildings