oystering

Updated: January 9, 2026

He is a good carpenter, a good cooper, a coarse shoemaker, a good hand at almost everything that is useful to us farmers." Among the free negroes on the seaboard there was a special proclivity toward the water pursuits of boating, oystering and the like.

Ulrich Bonnell Phillips - American Negro Slavery: A Survey of the Supply, Employment and Control of Negro Labor as Determined by the Plantation Regime