"Good Cooks and Washers": Slave Hiring, Domestic Labor, and the Market in Bourbon County, Kentucky

1997/09/01 by Keith C. Barton
Social Sciences · #Art #Economic history #History #Law #Political science #Race, History, and American Society #Sociology

paper · doi:10.2307/2952566

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Abstract

Keith C. Barton; “Good Cooks and Washers”: Slave Hiring, Domestic Labor, and the Market in Bourbon County, Kentucky, Journal of American History, Volume 84, Iss

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