Note 142 — Chapter III · DOMESTIC SERVICE DURING THE COLONIAL PERIOD
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The Sot-Weed Factor describes a quarrel in which one says:
“... tho’ now so brave, I knew you late a Four-Years Slave; What if for Planter’s Wife you go, Nature designed you for the Hoe.”—P. 21.
DeFoe says: “When their Time is expir’d, sometimes before it, (they) get marri’d and settl’d; turn Planters, and by Industry grow rich; or get to be Yearly Servants in good Families upon Terms.”—Behaviour of Servants, p. 140.