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One thing that was a little surprising was the number of slave accounts where they did not find out that they were freed from their masters. This happened in Clarissa Burdett's account (she just ran away), Fanny Berry's, and Katie Darling's. It's not necessarily surprising that white owners would try to pull that off, but I am wondering what reasons there were for the owners to be able to get away with keeping their slaves for an extended period of time. Was it geographical? --Mary Beth M. | One thing that was a little surprising was the number of slave accounts where they did not find out that they were freed from their masters. This happened in Clarissa Burdett's account (she just ran away), Fanny Berry's, and Katie Darling's. It's not necessarily surprising that white owners would try to pull that off, but I am wondering what reasons there were for the owners to be able to get away with keeping their slaves for an extended period of time. Was it geographical? --Mary Beth M. | ||
| − | It seems that I have read multiple times of women having problems with farm equipment, the latest being "Loss of male labor, crumbling equipment..." (Woloch 264)It is not in an actual account of the time but in the | + | It seems that I have read multiple times of women having problems with farm equipment, the latest being "Loss of male labor, crumbling equipment..." (Woloch 264) It is not in an actual account of the time but in the Woloch's overview of the ''A Wartime Mistress.'' Why do we see this mentioned so often with women in the South but not the North? --Jennifer S. |
== Louisa May Alcott, Hospital Sketches, 1862-1863 == | == Louisa May Alcott, Hospital Sketches, 1862-1863 == | ||
