1860, Unnamed, Female, Labor (Domestic)

Item

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
Labor: Domestic
Action Status
Completed
Date
1860
Date Certainty
Inferred
Source
Annals of Athens, Georgia
Page 284
Related Event
1860, Unnamed, Mention
Freedom Status
Enslaved
Enslaver
Henry Hull
Task Performed
Seamstress
Item sets
Labor
Site pages
Map & Timeline