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I was bewildered to read this. The treatment the domestic servant had received by her employer was total disregard to recognize her as a human being. She was taking care of her employers own children and they could not show a little compassion towards her and realize that her family needed her too. As a mother, it would be unbearable to not see my children for that long period of time. It took a strong woman to endure that. This servant nursed their baby, nursed in what sense, like to suckle a baby? If so, was this a common expectation? -MHimes | I was bewildered to read this. The treatment the domestic servant had received by her employer was total disregard to recognize her as a human being. She was taking care of her employers own children and they could not show a little compassion towards her and realize that her family needed her too. As a mother, it would be unbearable to not see my children for that long period of time. It took a strong woman to endure that. This servant nursed their baby, nursed in what sense, like to suckle a baby? If so, was this a common expectation? -MHimes | ||
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| + | After reading this article, I can't imagine the physical and mental exhaustion these African American woman faced in domestic service jobs. The woman whose story is told was a nurse, among many other things, yet she was still considered "servant class." Were white women who worked in the same type of jobs as nurses or household servants considered to be in the "servant class?" She goes on to say, "I am allowed to go home to my own children, the oldest of whom is a girl of 18 years, only one in two weeks, every other Sunday afternoon - even then I'm not permitted to stay all night." (P. 54 MAW) Wasn't there some type of law against keeping this lady at her job all the time? She was not a slave, so shouldn't she have been allowed to go home after work? Or did the rules of her job make her stay there? In my opinion, this free African American woman's job didn't seem that much different from slavery. -- Alex Mankarios | ||
==Ellen Carol DuBois on "Harriet Stanton Blatch and the New York Woman Suffrage Movement, 1894-1909"== | ==Ellen Carol DuBois on "Harriet Stanton Blatch and the New York Woman Suffrage Movement, 1894-1909"== | ||
