washing-benches

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The latter sometimes brought slaves who had continued faithful, and who retained their serfdom under the laws of Delaware. The French bonnes stood on washing-benches in the Brandywine, and taught the amazed Quaker wives that laundry-work could be done in cold water.

Various - Lippincott's Magazine, Volume 11, No. 26, May, 1873