Re: white, 25 yr old servant girl in 1855??
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Re: white, 25 yr old servant girl in 1855??
Preston 2/18/06
In 1855 Pennsylvania it was likely that she was one of the million+Irish who fled the Irish famine. I seriously doubt that she was indentured, she would have been employed by the family that owned the home.
This was a period of turmoil in the North. Irish workers would work for less money than anyone else. This displaced many poor whites and free blacks and created tension between all three groups