Whisper Falls by Elizabeth Langston

Author:Elizabeth Langston
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Whisper Falls
ISBN: 9781937053444
Publisher: Spencer Hill Press
Published: 2013-09-01T04:00:00+00:00

In return, the master must provide room and board, instruction for reading and writing, and training in ‘the trade and mystery of housewifery.’

Mystery? Didn’t seem like much of one to me. More like endless drudgery.

I copied and pasted everything the jerk owed Susanna into a file. This web page also mentioned “freedom dues.” I needed to remember to see if she knew what that meant.

Okay, time to refocus. Jobs in 1796 Raleigh.

No matter how hard I tried, I could find no useful information. This surprised me a lot. I was so used to being bombarded with data that it was just obnoxious I couldn’t find the one bit I really wanted.

Come on, people. Wanting a job was universal. It couldn’t have changed that much over time. There had to be positions that needed filling and people who wanted to fill them, especially in the state capital during the years it was under construction. Without a paper, how did the unemployed find work back then? Show up and hope for the best?

Wait. That had to be it.

If I wanted to know, I’d have to show up, too.

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