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Photographer: Bernard Fisher
Taken: October 24, 2009
Caption: The Lightfoot Home
Additional Description: An artisan or worker with marketable skills would have occupied a more comfortable home than someone who was unable to earn a comparable amount of disposable income. This one-room house, which reflects economic success, has refinements such as wooden floors, plastered walls, and an attic. It is covered with clapboards and has a shingled roof and brick chimney. Juba Lightfoot, a bricklayer and plasterer, though not one of William Ludwell Lee's ex-slaves, spent much of his adult life on the Hot Water property. He and his wife, Betsy, a laundress, shared their home with several children. Although Juba was able to buy some land and was living there in 1835, within a year's time he returned to his home at "the Hotwaters", where he seems to have spent the remainder of his life. Juba and Betsy Lightfoot would have had enough income to purchase fashionable goods, such as a spit for roasting meats, and an attractively painted bedstead. Their clothing reflects their superior economic status.
Submitted: October 25, 2009, by Bernard Fisher of Richmond, Virginia.
Database Locator Identification Number: p81867
File Size: 1.281 Megabytes

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