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Subject:	Re: Jefferson's soap
From:	"Anita L. Henderson" <[log in to unmask]>
Reply To:	Discussion of research and writing about Virginia history <[log in to unmask]>
Date:	Thu, 21 Jun 2007 14:21:44 EDT
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In a message dated 6/21/2007 8:19:37 AM Eastern Daylight Time, [log in to unmask] 
writes:

> 
> 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
www.agsas.org

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