Slavery in the North by Ross Marc Howard;

Author:Ross, Marc Howard; [Неизв.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 2018-05-13T20:00:00+00:00

RICHMOND

Richmond was the son of Hercules and Lame Alice. He was born in 1776 and had two younger sisters, Evey and Delia. Because their mother was a dower slave, they also were dowers. Richmond was eleven when his mother died in 1787. Three years later his father asked Washington’s permission to bring him to the President’s House. Washington reluctantly agreed, and Richmond worked as a scullion in the kitchen for the first year in Philadelphia. Among his duties would have been sweeping the chimneys. He probably slept with his father and Christopher Sheels in a room on the fourth floor of the main house. Washington returned him to Mount Vernon in October 1791, and Richmond probably worked there in the mansion kitchen. Richmond was caught stealing money at Mount Vernon in November 1796. Washington assumed that the theft was part of a planned escape attempt, possibly of the father and son together. Hercules did escape to freedom several months later, but alone. Washington demoted Richmond to a field laborer, and he was unmarried and working at River Farm in 1799. His fate and that of his sisters after Martha Washington’s death in 1802 is not known.

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