I have corresponded with Lenni.  She is an excellent source and a nice person.  Jane Steele.

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>From: "Anita L. Henderson" <[log in to unmask]>
>Sent: Jun 21, 2007 2:21 PM
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Re: [VA-HIST] Jefferson's soap
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>In a message dated 6/21/2007 8:19:37 AM Eastern Daylight Time, [log in to unmask] 
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>> 
>> And now for something completely different:
>> 
>> I see a reference in Jefferson's accounts in 1773 to buying soap from a
>> slave. Apparently the slave was making the soap, so I am asking if anyone
>> can point me to  a source that would explain how 18th-century farming folk
>> made their soap. Nothing to get lathered up about.
>> 
>> Henry Wiencek
>
>Dear Henry:
>
>Contact Leni Sorensen at Monticello regarding soapmaking.  I saw her making 
>soap at Oak Ridge Plantation during a Camp Jeep festival a number of years ago. 
> I don't believe soapmaking techniques varied a whole lot whether it was 
>yeoman farmers or slaves who were making it.  Her email at Monticello is 
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>Anita L. Henderson
>Atlantic Guard Soldiers' Aid Society
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Lillian Jane Steele