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of the almshouse, dispensary, or slave hospital.” The ladies cared for Blacks if they were freed and did not ask for information about how that freedom was obtained in the name of "southern tradition". The ladies would visit the ill and provide them with sugar, coffee, blankets, soaps, among other comforts. It played an important role in the life of the pre-war city. In
Antebellum Charleston, there were few occupations available for uneducated poor women who needed to support themselves. Normally in the 19th century, this category of women would be working as domestic servants, but in the Antebellum South, the planter aristocracy owned enslaved people and did not employ free domestic maids, and consequently, poor uneducated white women were, to a large degree, dependent upon charity.
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active part in society and managed its own independent finances. It was the local version of a number of local organisations of the same kind, also called "Ladies
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