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New York City itself housed one of the largest urban slave populations in North America: Around four in ten households in the city held people in bondage as domestic servants, carriage drivers, laundresses and dock workers.
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Carolyn Eastman, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Sep. 2024
One worker presses down hard on a shirt with a hot iron, head lowered and leaning into her labor as a commercial laundress.
—Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 13 Aug. 2024
August 07, 2024 Growing up in the heart of the Confederacy, Maggie Lena Walker started work as a laundress at age nine.
—Harvard Business Review, 7 Aug. 2024
Like her mother, Swan was a stay-at-home laundress.
—Rendy Jones, EW.com, 1 Aug. 2024
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Carolyn Eastman, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Sep. 2024
One worker presses down hard on a shirt with a hot iron, head lowered and leaning into her labor as a commercial laundress.
—Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 13 Aug. 2024
August 07, 2024 Growing up in the heart of the Confederacy, Maggie Lena Walker started work as a laundress at age nine.
—Harvard Business Review, 7 Aug. 2024
Like her mother, Swan was a stay-at-home laundress.
—Rendy Jones, EW.com, 1 Aug. 2024
See all Example Sentences for laundress
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“Laundress.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/laundress. Accessed 4 Nov. 2024.
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