What’s a poor girl to do to make a $ in Raleigh?
Female occupations in Raleigh, 1860
(Approximately 900 women of working age, free white women and free women of color, in the Capital city)
Primary occupations:
Domestic/washerwoman: 104
Seamstress: 54
Prostitute: 46
**Most domestics were young white women. Most washerwomen were free women of color. Most seamstresses and prostitutes were white. Source: 1860 Federal Census, Raleigh, Wake County, North Carolina
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