House slave
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A house slave was a slave who worked, and often lived, in the house of the slave-owner, performing domestic labor. House slaves performed essentially the same duties as all domestic workers throughout
The leader of the Haitian Revolution, Toussaint L'Ouverture, was a former house slave.
Servants waiting to serve bowls of rice and roast lamb to guests attending an Arab farmer's wedding in the Negev, 1933.
Sally Hemings
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Sally Hemings, whose given name may have been Sarah, was an enslaved woman, inherited among many others by the third President of the United States, Thomas Jefferson, from his father-in-law, John Wayl
House slave
…Hemings, whom Jefferson's wife inherited upon her father's death. In turn, Jefferson had sexual relations with the daughter of Betty and John Wayles, Sally Hemings, the half-sister to Thomas Jefferson's wife. The Hemings children grew up to be closely involved in Jefferson's household staff activities. Two sons…
Thomas Jefferson in 1791
Colonel John Wayles Jefferson, a grandson of Hemings, through her son Eston