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Many slaves, of course, like Jupiter and Silvey, married someone from within their own settlement and lived together. ’’ Such an assertion was a bold act of personal freedom. Both the freedom and the burden that went with it shaped much of family life in the settlements and had its impact on the manner in which Lizzy and Robinson related to each other and raised their children. 17 During the summer and fall, when they were all together in Sunbury, the domestic servants of Susannah Jones and Eliza Robarts had time together not only while they were busy cooking and cleaning and seeing after the needs of 26 Sunbury the white families but also after their work was done.
A wide hallway, with its polished heart-of-pine floor, cut through the center of the house from the front door to the back, with only the stairs to the upper floors The Retreat 35 blocking part of the way. At the front entrance, on each side of the hallway, were parlors. ’’ Both rooms had brick fireplaces and marble jams. Off from these parlors were wings, smaller rooms—including Joseph’s plantation office— with their own slanting roofs. A large dining room held a handsome table long enough for many to be seated and served.
1 Encompassing more than 3,100 acres, the Retreat had rich cotton and rice lands and included in its unimproved sections parts of both Bulltown and Rice Hope swamps. With the labors of his growing slave population and with his own inexhaustible energy, Joseph had turned the Retreat into the primary source of his wealth. But he was more than a successful planter, a skilled manager of slaves, and a knowledgeable agriculturist—he was also a careful and shrewd capitalist. Like other wealthy planters in the low country, he invested where he saw opportunity.