wood-choppings

Updated: July 2, 2026

Away back in the corners of his mind were recollections of sundry wood-choppings and milkings carried on under protest by himself and his companions; and knowledge, too, of how his father and mother had spent their ambitious youth in work, the mother spinning by the fireside, the father doing chores at his home in Pennsylvania.

George Spring Merriam - The Negro and the Nation: A History of American Slavery and Enfranchisement