CSPAN3 American History TV September 21, 2014
Believe they were primarily were involved in domestic slavery, doing cooking, cleaning, domestic chores for their owners. Dred and Harriet Scott belonged to a dr. Emerson. He was a surgeon. They would have been living in his kitchen, the workspace. In domestic slavery, typically enslaved people working under that type of condition would have been living inside the places that they worked. Along the officers quarters, down in the basement kitchen, that is where we believe a lot of the majority of the enslaved people would have been working and living. It is arguable that this is the place that ...