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Master and servant

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  • A white slave-owner handing a knife to a black enslaved man. Engraving by F. Engleheart, 1832, after W. Harvey.
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    The rights, duties and relations of domestic servants and their masters and mistresses : with a short account of servants' institutions, &c. and their advantages / by T. Henry Baylis.

    Baylis, T. Henry (Thomas Henry), 1817-1908. | Date: 1873
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    A short gentleman tries to embrace a tall maid, but is interrupted by his wife. Etching by F. Grose.

    Grose, Francis, 1731?-1791. | Date: [1788] | Reference: 747948i
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    The domestic revolution : the modernisation of household service in England and France, 1820-1920 / Theresa M. McBride.

    McBride, Theresa Marie, 1947- | Date: 1976
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    A white slave-owner handing a knife to a black enslaved man. Engraving by F. Engleheart, 1832, after W. Harvey.

    Harvey, William, 1796-1866. | Date: 1832 | Reference: 33057i
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