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From: Discussion of research and writing about Virginia history
[mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Henry Wiencek
Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2007 8:19 AM
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Subject: Jefferson's soap

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