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Ryan, Barbara. "‘Uneasy Relation’: Servants’ Place in the Nineteenth-Century American Home," Department of English, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, April 1994.
By the 1790s, genteel writers propagating a privatized/de-commercialized middling home began to express anxiety about waged non-kin domestic workers’ co-residence. This study explores anxieties about domestic servants once thought “family,” with particular attention to the contrast of waged and chattel service. The question, as late as 1875, was servants’ intrusiveness: i.e., people wondered which form of servant—Big House slave, “bound” orphan, waged “domestic” or hired “help”—co-resided most familially. Popular and sentimental fiction, household manuals, scientific treatises, Transcendentalist musings, and of course slave narratives reveal an array of Americans’ attempts to grapple with non-kin menials’ co-residence.
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