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Originally Posted by RainbowSix
Would you consider swapping it for a cotton picking slave card?
About 250 years old and in good condition, the original owner stopped using it many many years ago.
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Glib woke nonsense, Rainbow.
Maybe you’re descended from the slave owning classes but most of us aren’t. What do you think life was like for our ancestors 250 years ago?
This is the briefest summary I can find, although I struggled to find many descriptions of how the “lower orders” actually lived.
The life of an average family in late 17th century England was simple, yet laborious. Many lived in
one or two room houses that were often crowded with large families, as well as lodgers that shared their living space. Women typically gave birth to eight to ten children; however, due to
high mortality rates, only raised five or six children. The children of average or poor families began
working very early on in life, sometimes even as early as age seven. They worked mostly on farms as shepherds, cowherds, or apprentices and often left home to do so. ……. The average and poor families of the late 17th century England did not yet have the luxury of piped water, which created a rarity in bathing. Because of the
unhygienic lifestyle, lice and vermin were very common with these families.
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https://sites.udel.edu/britlitwiki/s...8th-centuries/)