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Singer Sewing Company agent Henry Jacobi had this ad run in the October 27, 1857 issue of the Arkansas True Democrat. The ad extols the benefits of sewing machines, which had only started being mass-produced a few years earlier. Curiously, the last line reads, "[i]t is well adapted to plantations for the purpose of making negro clothing, as it can do the work of 11 or 12 seamstresses." As this ad proves, ideas of domesticity and the growing popularity of sewing machines for general use in the home were intimately linked to the production of clothing for enslaved people in the American South
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