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Home Processing pork at Wessyngton Plantation, about 1890. Taken after emancipation, this photograph conveys the work that was performed by formerly enslaved women at Wessyngton. (Courtesy of the Washington Family private collection) Processing pork at Wessyngton Plantation, about 1890. Taken after emancipation, this photograph conveys the work that was performed by formerly enslaved women at Wessyngton. (Courtesy of the Washington Family private collection)

Processing pork at Wessyngton Plantation, about 1890. Taken after emancipation, this photograph conveys the work that was performed by formerly enslaved women at Wessyngton. (Courtesy of the Washington Family private collection)

Processing pork at Wessyngton Plantation, about 1890. Taken after emancipation, this photograph conveys the work that was performed by formerly enslaved women at Wessyngton. (Courtesy of the Washington Family private collection)

Processing pork at Wessyngton Plantation, about 1890. Taken after emancipation, this photograph conveys the work that was performed by formerly enslaved women at Wessyngton. (Courtesy of the Washington Family private collection)

Jane Washington and her “Negro clothing book.”  Jane supervised the production of clothing for nearly 300 slaves.  On these pages she lists the names of slaves next to clothes they received in 1861.
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