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Subject:	Jefferson's soap
From:	Henry Wiencek <[log in to unmask]>
Reply To:	Discussion of research and writing about Virginia history <[log in to unmask]>
Date:	Thu, 21 Jun 2007 08:19:12 -0400
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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

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