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 [log in to unmask] Anita L. Henderson Atlantic Guard Soldiers' Aid Society www.agsas.org ************************************** See what's free at http://www.aol.com.