[9] At the same time Edward Rumsey was calling for
strong negro men of good character at $100 per year at his iron works in
Botetourt County, Virginia, and inviting free laboring men also to take
employment with him.[10] In 1808 Daniel Weisinger and Company wanted three
or four negro men to work in their factory at Frankfort, Kentucky, saying
"they will be taught weaving, and liberal wages will be paid for their
services."[11] George W. Evans at Augusta in 1818 "Wanted to hire, eight or
ten white or black men for the purpose of cutting wood."[12] A citizen of
Charleston in 1821 called for eight good black carpenters on weekly or
monthly wages, and in 1825 a blacksmith and wheel-wright of the same city
offered to take black apprentices.[13] In many cases whites and blacks
worked together in the same employ, as in a boat-building yard on the Flint
River in 1836,[14] and in a cotton mill at Athens, Georgia, in 1839.[15]
[Footnote 9: _Virginia Gazette_ (Richmond), Nov. 20, 1798.]
[Footnote 10: Winchester, Va., _Gazette_, Jan. 30, 1799.]
[Footnote 11: The _Palladium_ (Frankfort, Ky.), Dec. 1, 1808.]
[Footnote 12: Augusta, Ga., _Chronicle_, Aug. 1, 1818.]
[Footnote 13: Charleston _City Gazette_, Feb.
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