Two Childhoods

James Woodland statement of account with H. Ferguson, 1797-1800

James Woodland statement of account with H. Ferguson, 1797-1800

 

This Kent County financial statement from the 1790s notes — among other expenses like the purchase of whiskey — the cost of “hiring” an enslaved girl to bind wheat, part of the harvesting process.



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