If you would like an example, of the issue see John Payne vs James 
Quisenbury, Orange Co., Va., chancery file 1802-002, especially images 3 
and 4.

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On 11/5/2022 3:29 PM, Lois M. Leveen wrote:
> Having been in off-list conversations with various  folks who responded to this post, I neglected to thank those who replied to the list.  John Zaborney’s  *Slaves for Hire:  Renting Enslaved Laborers in Antebellum Virginia* (LSU Press, 2012) has arrived and is indeed an excellent source on slave hiring in general, as well as addressing this question in particular.
> I highly recommend it!
>
> -Lois
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>> On Oct 27, 2022, at 8:24 AM, Sheri Huerta <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>
>> I was going to suggest John's book. He includes many examples of
>> arrangements for women in hiring contracts. Hiring contracts contain loads
>> of information about the conditions and terms of service and the many court
>> cases brought against hirers indicates the degree to which these provisions
>> and stipulations were not complied with.
>>
>> Can't wait to read your work, Lois!
>> Sheri Huerta
>>
>> On Thu, Oct 27, 2022 at 8:14 AM T. C. GRAY <
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>>> Hi there! I find your question very interesting. Do you have any evidence
>>> or reason to believe that such agreements existed? I am totally unaware of
>>> such.
>>>
>>> Shalom,
>>>
>>> T.C. Gray
>>>
>>>
>>>      On Wednesday, October 26, 2022, 04:26:23 PM EDT, Lois Leveen <
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>>>
>>> Howdy list,
>>> Does anyone happen to know whether hiring-out agreements made any
>>> provisions regarding pregnancy of enslaved girls and women? What happened
>>> when a hired-out girl or woman became pregnant/delivered a child? We know
>>> from various sources that there were some fairly standard provisions in
>>> hiring agreements regarding the provision of clothing allotments or medical
>>> care for hired-out laborers. But I have never seen any references, either
>>> in the hiring contracts/receipts themselves or in any scholarship on the
>>> topic, regarding pregnancy -- either in terms of the pregnant person or in
>>> terms of any infant born while a mother was hired-out. Given both the
>>> effects pregnancy might have on the labor performed by a hired-out person,
>>> and vice versa, as well as the interests or concerns an enslaver might have
>>> regarding infants resulting from such pregnancies, it seems strange to me
>>> that the sources I know of appear entirely silent on this topic.
>>>
>>> While the majority of hired-out slaves may have been male, there were
>>> certainly females who were hired out (at least in antebellum Richmond, my
>>> area of focus). And there certainly must have been sexual activity
>>> involving those enslaved people -- perhaps consensual liaisons that
>>> hired-out people were able to pursue for themselves while away from their
>>> enslavers, but also potential incidents of sexual abuse of those who had
>>> been hired out. Indeed, I suppose a related question is whether we have any
>>> sources -- hiring contracts, court documents, correspondence, etc. -- that
>>> address situations in which hired-out enslaved people were subject to
>>> sexual predation during the period of hire. Was sexual "use" of a hired-out
>>> worker assumed as part of the contract?
>>>
>>> The wording of this query emphasizes the perspectives of the enslavers and
>>> the hirers, because presumably those are the perspectives that the extant
>>> records would be most likely to reflect and preserve. I do not mean to
>>> ignore the perspective of the enslaved/hired-out themselves; quite the
>>> opposite. The larger questions I am thinking about involve the experiences
>>> of hired-out females. What might an enslaved girl or women experience as
>>> part of hiring out, and how might pregnancy figure into their experiences?
>>>
>>> As ever, I welcome any help list members can offer.
>>> Thanks,
>>> Lois
>>>
>>> Lois Leveen PhD
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