Resource class dctype:Event Url https://onthesegroundsuga.digilabuga.org/s/otg/item/905 Title 1863-02-05, Sam, Male, Labor (Domestic) Description 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." Event Type Labor: Domestic Action Status https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/546 Completed Date 1863-02-05 Location 476 Cause 904 Source 899 Transcript page 67 Related Event 905 904 903 901 Primary Participant 685 Freedom Status https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/553 Enslaved Enslaver 535 Leaser 902 Organization 902 Currency Dollar Price $1.00 Task Performed Sweep hall and light fires -- Resource class dctype:Event Url https://onthesegroundsuga.digilabuga.org/s/otg/item/903 Title 1862-03-15, Sam, Male, Labor (Domestic) Description 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" Event Type Labor: Domestic Action Status https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/546 Completed Date 1862-03-15 Location 476 Source 899 Related Event 905 904 903 901 Primary Participant 685 Freedom Status https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/553 Enslaved Enslaver 535 Leaser 902 Organization 902 Currency Dollar Price $7.00 -- Resource class dctype:Event Url https://onthesegroundsuga.digilabuga.org/s/otg/item/901 Title 1861-04-13, Sam, Male, Labor (Domestic) Description 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." Event Type Labor: Domestic Action Status https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/546 Completed Date 1861-04-13 Location 476 Source 899 Related Event 905 904 903 901 Primary Participant 685 Freedom Status https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/553 Enslaved Enslaver 535 Leaser 902 Organization 902 -- Resource class dctype:Event Url https://onthesegroundsuga.digilabuga.org/s/otg/item/869 Title 1862, Joe, Male, Labor Description 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." Event Type https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/484 Labor Action Status https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/546 Completed Date 1862 Location 525 Source 847 https://gahistoricnewspapers.galileo.usg.edu/lccn/sn82014069/1862-01-15/ed-1/seq-3/ Issue January 15, 1862 page 3 Related Event 868 Primary Participant 867 Freedom Status https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/553 Enslaved Enslaver 866 Author 714 Leaser Athens City Council -- Resource class dctype:Event Url https://onthesegroundsuga.digilabuga.org/s/otg/item/822 Title 1831, Unnamed, Male, Labor (Artisanal) Description 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." Event Type https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/591 Labor: Artisanal Action Status https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/546 Completed Date 1831 Date Certainty https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/550 Approximate Location 476 Source 821 Page 17 Freedom Status https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/553 Enslaved Author 524 Leaser 477 -- Resource class dctype:Event Url https://onthesegroundsuga.digilabuga.org/s/otg/item/819 Title 1826-03-10, Unnamed, Labor (Agricultural) Description 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." Event Type https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/485 Labor: Agricultural Action Status https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/546 Completed Date 1826-03-10 Location 525 Source 786 Page 90 Freedom Status https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/553 Enslaved Enslaver 787 Author 787 -- Resource class dctype:Event Url https://onthesegroundsuga.digilabuga.org/s/otg/item/817 Title 1826-03-02, Solomon, Male, Labor (Agricultural) Description Solomon plowed oats on Moses Waddel's plantation. Partial Transcript: "[March] 2nd... saw Solomon plowing oats sowed too thin." Event Type https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/485 Labor: Agricultural Action Status https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/546 Completed Date 1826-03-02 Location 525 Source 786 Page 88 Primary Participant 816 Freedom Status https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/553 Enslaved Enslaver 787 Author 787 Task Performed Plowing -- Resource class dctype:Event Url https://onthesegroundsuga.digilabuga.org/s/otg/item/812 Title 1825-04-18, Ned, Male, Labor (Agricultural) Description 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." Event Type https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/485 Labor: Agricultural Action Status https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/546 Completed Date 1825-04-18 Location 525 Source 786 Page 42 Related Event 811 Primary Participant 810 Freedom Status https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/553 Enslaved Enslaver 787 Author 787 Task Performed Hive bees -- Resource class dctype:Event Url https://onthesegroundsuga.digilabuga.org/s/otg/item/811 Title 1825-04-18, Ben, Male, Labor (Agricultural) Description 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." Event Type https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/485 Labor: Agricultural Action Status https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/546 Completed Date 1825-04-18 Location 525 Source 786 Page 42 Related Event 812 Primary Participant 808 Freedom Status https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/553 Enslaved Enslaver 787 Author 787 Task Performed Hive bees -- Resource class dctype:Event Url https://onthesegroundsuga.digilabuga.org/s/otg/item/809 Title 1825-04-18, Ben, Male, Labor (Agricultural) Description 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." Event Type https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/485 Labor: Agricultural Action Status https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/546 Completed Date 1825-04-18 Location 525 Source 786 Page 42 Primary Participant 808 Freedom Status https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/553 Enslaved Enslaver 787 Author 787 Task Performed Installing a fence -- Resource class dctype:Event Url https://onthesegroundsuga.digilabuga.org/s/otg/item/797 Title 1824-12-15, Unnamed, Labor (Agricultural) Description 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." Event Type https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/485 Labor: Agricultural Action Status https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/546 Completed Date 1824-12-15 Location 525 Source 786 Page 22 Freedom Status https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/553 Enslaved Enslaver 787 Task Performed Slaughtering -- Resource class dctype:Event Url https://onthesegroundsuga.digilabuga.org/s/otg/item/795 Title 1824-11-26, Edmund, Male, Labor (Agricultural) Description 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." Event Type https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/485 Labor: Agricultural Action Status https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/546 Completed Date 1824-11-26 Location 525 Source 786 Page 19-20 Related Event 796 Primary Participant 794 Freedom Status https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/553 Enslaved Enslaver 787 Author 787 -- Resource class dctype:Event Url https://onthesegroundsuga.digilabuga.org/s/otg/item/793 Title 1824-11-22, Unnamed, Female, Labor (Agricultural) Description 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." Event Type https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/485 Labor: Agricultural Action Status https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/546 Completed Date 1824-11-22 Location 525 Source 786 Page 18 Freedom Status https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/553 Enslaved Enslaver 787 Author 787 Task Performed Cotton picking -- Resource class dctype:Event Url https://onthesegroundsuga.digilabuga.org/s/otg/item/792 Title 1824-11-06, Unnamed, Labor (Agricultural) Description 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." Event Type https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/485 Labor: Agricultural Action Status https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/546 Completed Date 1824-11-06 Location 525 Source 786 Page 15 Freedom Status https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/553 Enslaved Enslaver 787 Author 787 -- Resource class dctype:Event Url https://onthesegroundsuga.digilabuga.org/s/otg/item/791 Title 1824-10-26, Billy Hull, Male, Labor (Domestic) Description 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." Event Type https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/486 Labor: Domestic Action Status https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/546 Completed Date 1824-10-26 Location 476 Source 786 Page 12 Primary Participant 703 Freedom Status https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/553 Enslaved Enslaver 620 Author 787 Additional Participant 787 Leaser 477 Task Performed bell ringer -- Resource class dctype:Event Url https://onthesegroundsuga.digilabuga.org/s/otg/item/789 Title 1824-10-01, Unnamed, Labor (Agricultural) Description Moses Waddel and Nisbet observed at Waddel's plantation enslaved people clean the barn and spread cotton. Event Type https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/485 Labor: Agricultural Action Status https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/546 Completed Date 1824-10-01 Location 525 Source 786 Page 7 Freedom Status https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/553 Enslaved Enslaver 787 Author 787 Task Performed Barn cleaning and spreading cotton -- Resource class dctype:Event Url https://onthesegroundsuga.digilabuga.org/s/otg/item/788 Title 1824-09-28, Unnamed, Labor (Agricultural) Description Enslaved persons picked cotton on Moses Waddels' plantation. Partial Transcript: "Tuesday Septemeber 28... went [with] Mr. Nisbet to my plantation [and] saw cotton picking." Event Type https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/485 Labor: Agricultural Action Status https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/546 Completed Date 1824-09-28 Location 525 Source 786 Page 6 Freedom Status https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/553 Enslaved Enslaver 787 Author 787 Task Performed Cotton picking -- Resource class dctype:Event Url https://onthesegroundsuga.digilabuga.org/s/otg/item/753 Title 1827-01-26, Willis, Male, Labor (Artisanal) Description 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." Event Type https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/591 Labor: Artisanal Action Status https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/546 Completed Date 1827-01-26 Location 525 Cause 746 Source 743 https://gahistoricnewspapers.galileo.usg.edu/lccn/sn85027027/1827-01-26/ed-1/seq-1/ Issue January 26, 1827, page 1 Related Event 746 Primary Participant 745 -- Resource class dctype:Event Url https://onthesegroundsuga.digilabuga.org/s/otg/item/741 Title 1854, Willis, Male, Labor Description 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" Event Type https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/484 Labor Action Status https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/546 Completed Date 1854 Location 525 Source 619 Page 274 Primary Participant 740 Freedom Status https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/553 Enslaved Enslaver 524 Author 618 -- Resource class dctype:Event Url https://onthesegroundsuga.digilabuga.org/s/otg/item/726 Title 1860, Unnamed, Male, Labor Description 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." Event Type https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/484 Labor Action Status https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/546 Completed Date 1860 Date Certainty https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/551 Inferred Location 525 Source 619 Page 284 Related Event 720 Freedom Status https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/553 Enslaved Enslaver 620 Author 618 Task Performed Utility work -- Resource class dctype:Event Url https://onthesegroundsuga.digilabuga.org/s/otg/item/725 Title 1860, Unnamed, Labor Description 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." Event Type https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/484 Labor Action Status https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/546 Completed Date 1860 Date Certainty https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/550 Approximate Location 525 Source 619 Page 284 Related Event 720 Freedom Status https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/553 Enslaved Enslaver 620 Author 618 Task Performed Carriage driver, Gardener -- Resource class dctype:Event Url https://onthesegroundsuga.digilabuga.org/s/otg/item/724 Title 1860, Unnamed, Female, Labor (Domestic) Description 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." Event Type https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/486 Labor: Domestic Action Status https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/546 Completed Date 1860 Date Certainty https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/550 Approximate Location 525 Source 619 https://archive.org/details/annalsofathens00hull/page/283/mode/2up Page 283 Related Event 720 Freedom Status https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/553 Enslaved Enslaver 620 Author 618 -- Resource class dctype:Event Url https://onthesegroundsuga.digilabuga.org/s/otg/item/723 Title 1860, Unnamed, Female, Labor (Domestic) Description 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." Event Type https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/486 Labor: Domestic Action Status https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/546 Completed Date 1860 Date Certainty https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/551 Inferred Location 525 Source 619 Page 284 Related Event 720 Freedom Status https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/553 Enslaved Enslaver 620 Author 618 Task Performed Seamstress -- Resource class dctype:Event Url https://onthesegroundsuga.digilabuga.org/s/otg/item/722 Title 1860, Unnamed, Female, Labor (Domestic) Description 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." Event Type https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/486 Labor: Domestic Action Status https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/546 Completed Date 1860 Date Certainty https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/551 Inferred Location 525 Source 619 Page 284 Related Event 720 Freedom Status https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/553 Enslaved Enslaver 620 Author 618 Task Performed Nurse -- Resource class dctype:Event Url https://onthesegroundsuga.digilabuga.org/s/otg/item/721 Title 1860, Unnamed, Female, Labor (Domestic) Description 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." Event Type https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/486 Labor: Domestic Action Status https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/546 Completed Date 1860 Date Certainty https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/551 Inferred Location 525 Source 619 https://archive.org/details/annalsofathens00hull/page/283/mode/2up Page 283 Related Event 720 Freedom Status https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/553 Enslaved Enslaver 620 Author 618 Task Performed Laundry -- Resource class dctype:Event Url https://onthesegroundsuga.digilabuga.org/s/otg/item/719 Title 1860, Unnamed, Female, Labor (Domestic) Description Two enslaved females served as cooks at Henry Hull's residence. Partial Transcript: "Two women — one aged — were cooks." Event Type https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/486 Labor: Domestic Action Status https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/546 Completed Date 1860 Date Certainty https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/551 Inferred Location 525 https://archive.org/details/annalsofathens00hull/page/283/mode/2up Page 283 Source 619 Related Event 720 Freedom Status https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/553 Enslaved Enslaver 620 Author 618 -- Resource class dctype:Event Url https://onthesegroundsuga.digilabuga.org/s/otg/item/717 Title 1860, Lewis, Male, Labor Description 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. Event Type https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/484 Labor Action Status https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/546 Completed Date 1860 Date Certainty https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/552 Questionable Location 525 Source 619 https://archive.org/details/annalsofathens00hull/page/177/mode/2up Page 177 Related Event 718 Primary Participant 715 Freedom Status https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/553 Enslaved Enslaver 714 Author 618 -- Resource class dctype:Event Url https://onthesegroundsuga.digilabuga.org/s/otg/item/709 Title 1855, Rob Roy, Male, Labor (Domestic) Description 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." Event Type https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/486 Labor: Domestic Action Status https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/546 Completed Date 1855 Date Certainty https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/552 Questionable Location 525 Source 619 https://archive.org/details/annalsofathens00hull/page/176/mode/2up Page 176 Primary Participant 707 Freedom Status https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/553 Enslaved Enslaver 708 Author 618 Task Performed Valet, driver, butler, office boy -- Resource class dctype:Event Url https://onthesegroundsuga.digilabuga.org/s/otg/item/704 Title 1860, Billy Hull, Male, Labor (Artisanal) Description 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." Event Type https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/591 Labor: Artisanal Action Status https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/546 Completed Date 1860 Date Certainty https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/552 Questionable Location 525 Source 619 https://archive.org/details/annalsofathens00hull/page/174/mode/2up Page 174 Related Event 682 Primary Participant 703 Author 618 Additional Participant 681 -- Resource class dctype:Event Url https://onthesegroundsuga.digilabuga.org/s/otg/item/702 Title 1860, Unnamed, Labor (Agricultural) Description 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." Event Type https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/485 Labor: Agricultural Action Status https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/546 Completed Date 1860 Date Certainty https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/552 Questionable Location 525 Source 619 https://archive.org/details/annalsofathens00hull/page/173/mode/2up Page 173 Freedom Status https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/553 Enslaved Enslaver 620 Author 618 -- Resource class dctype:Event Url https://onthesegroundsuga.digilabuga.org/s/otg/item/701 Title 1860, Bill, Male, Labor (Domestic) Description 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" Event Type https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/486 Labor: Domestic Action Status https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/546 Completed Date 1860 Date Certainty https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/552 Questionable Location 525 Source 619 https://archive.org/details/annalsofathens00hull/page/173/mode/2up Page 173 Primary Participant 700 Freedom Status https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/553 Enslaved Enslaver 620 Author 618 -- Resource class dctype:Event Url https://onthesegroundsuga.digilabuga.org/s/otg/item/699 Title 1860, Squire, Male, Labor (Domestic) Description 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." Event Type https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/486 Labor: Domestic Action Status https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/546 Completed Date 1860 Date Certainty https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/552 Questionable Location 525 Source 619 https://archive.org/details/annalsofathens00hull/page/173/mode/2up Page 173 Primary Participant 698 Freedom Status https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/553 Enslaved Enslaver 620 Author 618 -- Resource class dctype:Event Url https://onthesegroundsuga.digilabuga.org/s/otg/item/697 Title 1860, Little Buff, Male, Labor (Agricultural) Description 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." Event Type https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/485 Labor: Agricultural Action Status https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/546 Completed Date 1860 Date Certainty https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/552 Questionable Location 525 Source 619 https://archive.org/details/annalsofathens00hull/page/172/mode/2up Page 172 Primary Participant 696 Freedom Status https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/553 Enslaved Enslaver 620 Author 618 -- Resource class dctype:Event Url https://onthesegroundsuga.digilabuga.org/s/otg/item/686 Title 1860, Sam, Male, Labor (Domestic) Description 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." Event Type https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/486 Labor: Domestic Action Status https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/546 Completed Date 1860 Date Certainty https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/550 Approximate Location 476 Source 619 https://archive.org/details/annalsofathens00hull/page/175/mode/2up Pages 175-176 Primary Participant 685 Freedom Status https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/553 Enslaved Author 618 -- Resource class dctype:Event Url https://onthesegroundsuga.digilabuga.org/s/otg/item/683 Title 1860, Davy Hull, Male, Labor (Artisanal) Description 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." Event Type https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/591 Labor: Artisanal Action Status https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/546 Completed Date 1860 Date Certainty https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/550 Approximate Location 525 Source 619 https://archive.org/details/annalsofathens00hull/page/174/mode/2up Page 174 Primary Participant 681 Freedom Status https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/553 Enslaved Author 618 -- Resource class dctype:Event Url https://onthesegroundsuga.digilabuga.org/s/otg/item/682 Title 1860, Davy Hull, Male, Labor (Artisanal) Description 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." Event Type https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/591 Labor: Artisanal Action Status https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/546 Completed Date 1860 Date Certainty https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/550 Approximate Location 476 Source 619 https://archive.org/details/annalsofathens00hull/page/174/mode/2up Page 174 Primary Participant 681 Freedom Status https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/553 Enslaved Author 618 -- Resource class dctype:Event Url https://onthesegroundsuga.digilabuga.org/s/otg/item/679 Title 1860, Malinda, Female, Labor (Domestic) Description 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." Event Type https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/486 Labor: Domestic Action Status https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/546 Completed Date 1860 Date Certainty https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/552 Questionable Location 525 Source 619 https://archive.org/details/annalsofathens00hull/page/173/mode/2up Page 173 Primary Participant 678 Freedom Status https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/553 Enslaved Enslaver 620 Author 618 -- Resource class dctype:Event Url https://onthesegroundsuga.digilabuga.org/s/otg/item/677 Title 1860, Bart, Male, Labor (Agricultural) Description 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." Event Type https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/485 Labor: Agricultural Action Status https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/546 Completed Date 1860 Date Certainty https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/552 Questionable Location 525 Source 619 https://archive.org/details/annalsofathens00hull/page/172/mode/2up Page 172 Primary Participant 676 Freedom Status https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/553 Enslaved Enslaver 620 Author 618 -- Resource class dctype:Event Url https://onthesegroundsuga.digilabuga.org/s/otg/item/675 Title 1860, Mike, Male, Labor (Agricultural) Description 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." Event Type https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/485 Labor: Agricultural Action Status https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/546 Completed Date 1860 Date Certainty https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/552 Questionable Location 525 Source 619 https://archive.org/details/annalsofathens00hull/page/172/mode/2up Page 172 Related Event 674 Freedom Status https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/553 Enslaved Enslaver 620 Author 618 -- Resource class dctype:Event Url https://onthesegroundsuga.digilabuga.org/s/otg/item/630 Title 1820, Joe, Male, Labor (Agricultural) Description 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." Event Type https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/485 Labor: Agricultural Action Status https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/546 Completed Date 1820 Date Certainty https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/552 Questionable Location 525 Source 619 https://archive.org/details/annalsofathens00hull/page/79/mode/2up Page 79 Primary Participant 629 Freedom Status https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/553 Enslaved Enslaver Mr. Thomas Author 618 -- Resource class dctype:Event Url https://onthesegroundsuga.digilabuga.org/s/otg/item/625 Title 1810, Dick Cary, Male, Labor (Domestic) Description 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." Event Type https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/486 Labor: Domestic Action Status https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/546 Completed Date 1810 Date Certainty https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/552 Questionable Location 476 Source 619 https://archive.org/details/annalsofathens00hull/page/33/mode/2up Page 33 Related Event 626 Primary Participant 624 Freedom Status https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/553 Enslaved Enslaver 622 Author 618 Leaser 477 Task Performed Bell ringing -- Resource class dctype:Event Url https://onthesegroundsuga.digilabuga.org/s/otg/item/599 Title 1857, Lucius Henry Holsey, Male, Labor (Agricultural) Description 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." Event Type https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/485 Labor: Agricultural Action Status https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/546 Completed Date 1857 Date Certainty https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/550 Approximate Location 525 Outcome 597 Source 594 https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=emu.010001225938&view=1up&seq=24&skin=2021 Page 16 Related Event 598 Primary Participant 593 Freedom Status https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/553 Enslaved Enslaver 595 Author 593 Task Performed Gardening -- Resource class dctype:Event Url https://onthesegroundsuga.digilabuga.org/s/otg/item/598 Title 1857, Lucius Henry Holsey, Male, Labor (Domestic) Description 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." Event Type https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/486 Labor: Domestic Action Status https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/546 Completed Date 1857 Date Certainty https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/550 Approximate Location 525 Cause 597 Source 594 https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=emu.010001225938&view=1up&seq=24&skin=2021 Page 16 Related Event 599 Primary Participant 593 Freedom Status https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/553 Enslaved Enslaver 595 Author 593 Task Performed Carriage driver and house servant -- Resource class dctype:Event Url https://onthesegroundsuga.digilabuga.org/s/otg/item/541 Title 1846-12-25, Unnamed, Labor (Agricultural) Description 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." Event Type https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/485 Labor: Agricultural Action Status https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/546 Completed Date 1846-12-25 Location 531 476 Cause 540 Source 512 Page 52 Related Event 540 Freedom Status https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/553 Enslaved Author 524 Leaser 477 Organization 528 Task Performed Tend to the Botanical Garden -- Resource class dctype:Event Url https://onthesegroundsuga.digilabuga.org/s/otg/item/537 Title 1844-12-04, Unnamed, Labor (Agricultural) Description 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." Event Type https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/485 Labor: Agricultural Action Status https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/548 Potential Date 1844-12-04 Location 531 476 Cause 536 Source 512 Page 30 Related Event 536 Freedom Status https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/553 Enslaved Author 533 Leaser 477 Organization 528 Task Performed Keeping up the Botanical Garden -- Resource class dctype:Event Url https://onthesegroundsuga.digilabuga.org/s/otg/item/532 Title 1844-11-14, Unnamed, Labor Description 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." Event Type https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/484 Labor Action Status https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/546 Completed Date 1844-11-14 Location 476 Source 512 Page 28 Freedom Status https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/553 Enslaved Author 475 Leaser 477 Organization 528 Task Performed Aid E. L. Thomas -- Resource class dctype:Event Url https://onthesegroundsuga.digilabuga.org/s/otg/item/529 Title 1842-12-17, Patrick, Male, Labor (Agricultural) Description 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" Event Type https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/485 Labor: Agricultural Action Status https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/546 Completed Date 1842-12-17 Location 476 531 Cause 527 Source 512 Primary Participant 609 Freedom Status https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/553 Enslaved Author 475 Leaser 477 Organization 528 Price $100 Task Performed Laborer in the Botanical Garden -- Resource class dctype:Event Url https://onthesegroundsuga.digilabuga.org/s/otg/item/511 Title 1855-11-06, Unnamed, Labor (Domestic) Description 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." Event Type https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/486 Labor: Domestic Action Status https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/546 Completed Date 1855-11-06 Location 476 Cause 510 Source 493 Page 277 Related Event 510 Freedom Status https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/553 Enslaved Author 475 Organization 466 Price $10 or $12 Task Performed Annual repairs including mending plaster, setting glass, and repairing blinds -- Resource class dctype:Event Url https://onthesegroundsuga.digilabuga.org/s/otg/item/509 Title 1855-08-01, Unnamed, Labor (Agricultural) Description 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." Event Type https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/485 Labor: Agricultural Action Status https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/546 Completed Date 1855-08-01 Location 476 531 Cause 508 Source 493 Page 265 Related Event 508 Freedom Status https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/553 Enslaved Author 475 Organization 466 Price $500 Task Performed Keeping the Garden in order -- Resource class dctype:Event Url https://onthesegroundsuga.digilabuga.org/s/otg/item/506 Title 1853-08-01, Unnamed, Labor (Agricultural) Description 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." Event Type https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/485 Labor: Agricultural Action Status https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/546 Completed Date 1853-08-01 Date Certainty https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/551 Inferred Location 476 531 Source 493 Page 230 Freedom Status https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/553 Enslaved Author 475 Organization 466 Task Performed Tending to the Garden -- Resource class dctype:Event Url https://onthesegroundsuga.digilabuga.org/s/otg/item/502 Title 1839-08-07, Unnamed, Male, Labor (Domestic) Description 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." Event Type https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/486 Labor: Domestic Action Status https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/546 Completed Date 1839-08-07 Date Certainty https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/551 Inferred Location 476 Cause 501 Source 493 Page 69 Related Event 501 Freedom Status https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/553 Enslaved Author 475 Leaser 477 Organization 466 Task Performed Repair the outside of the new college building and paint the President's House and the Chapel Cupola -- Resource class dctype:Event Url https://onthesegroundsuga.digilabuga.org/s/otg/item/497 Title 1835-08-05, Unnamed, Male, Labor (Artisanal) Description 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." Event Type https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/591 Labor: Artisanal Action Status https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/548 Potential Date 1835-08-05 Location 476 Cause 496 Source 493 Page 17 Related Event 496 Freedom Status https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/553 Enslaved Author 475 Leaser 477 Organization 466 Task Performed Examine and Repair the roof of Old College -- Resource class dctype:Event Url https://onthesegroundsuga.digilabuga.org/s/otg/item/487 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 https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/486 Labor: Domestic Action Status https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/546 Completed Date 1828-08-05 Date Certainty https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/551 Inferred Location 476 Source 472 https://dlg.usg.edu/record/guan_ua02-042_006-002?canvas=93&x=3769&y=2187&w=9285 Page 186 Related Event 486 Freedom Status https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/553 Enslaved Author 475 Organization 466 Task Performed To wait, on the students, clean their shoes and boots, to make their fires and to cleanse the College Buildings. -- Resource class dctype:Event Url https://onthesegroundsuga.digilabuga.org/s/otg/item/483 Title 1827-08-02, Unnamed, Labor Description 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" Event Type https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/486 Labor: Domestic Action Status https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/546 Completed Date 1827-08-02 Date Certainty https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/550 Approximate Location 476 Cause 482 Source 472 https://dlg.usg.edu/record/guan_ua02-042_006-002?canvas=84&x=3157&y=2293&w=9225 Page 168 Related Event 482 Freedom Status https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/553 Enslaved Author 475 Organization 466 Price $75.00 -- Resource class dctype:Event Url https://onthesegroundsuga.digilabuga.org/s/otg/item/481 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 https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/486 Labor: Domestic Action Status https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/546 Completed Date 1826-08-02 Date Certainty https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/551 Inferred Location 476 Cause 479 Source 472 https://dlg.usg.edu/record/guan_ua02-042_006-002?canvas=80&x=3511&y=2296&w=9465 Page 161 Related Event 479 Freedom Status https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/553 Enslaved Author 475 Organization 466 Task Performed Cleaning academic buildings -- Resource class dctype:Event Url https://onthesegroundsuga.digilabuga.org/s/otg/item/480 Title 1826-08-02, Unnamed, Labor (Domestic) Description 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." Event Type https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/486 Labor: Domestic Action Status https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/548 Potential Date 1826-08-02 Date Certainty https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/551 Inferred Location 476 Cause 478 Source 472 https://dlg.usg.edu/record/guan_ua02-042_006-002?canvas=80&x=3654&y=2409&w=9465 Page 160 Related Event 478 Freedom Status https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/553 Enslaved Author 475 Organization 466 Task Performed Cleaning academic buildings --