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In April 1818, after almost 20 years of married life at Riversdale, Rosalie Calvert wrote to her sister, Isabelle van Havre, that
[m]y husband has become so lazy that I must exert myself even more, since I have to manage everything myself. He lives in our house as if he were not the master—not giving any instructions, not worrying about anything— and is content to manage his various farms. So you can imagine how overwhelmed with work I am at times.1
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Sarson, S. (2013). “The Torment with the Servants”: Wage Workers, Servants, and Slaves. In: The Tobacco-Plantation South in the Early American Atlantic World. The Americas in the Early Modern Atlantic World. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137116567_7
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