(Excerpted from longer article titled "Reminiscences of Platte" by an unidentified author.) "Down below the dam (at Platte City), on the "beach", the washerwomen used to take the clothes to be laundered. I have seen a dozen great iron kettles where the colored women would boil the clothes on wash day. It appeared to be a holiday for them but the bad boys would throw rocks at them to their great annoyance."
Date(s) of Creation
12/25/1896
Other Names and Numbers
Other Names
Name Type
Enslaved
Other Name
Unidentified Slaves
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Plattsburg Leader (Plattsburg, MO, 1895-1964): 12/25/1896, p. 2
