Description
In 1893, Maymont was a house with two very separate stories. Richmond millionaires James & Sallie Dooley enjoyed an opulent and privileged lifestyle while dozens of domestic servants—both black and white—labored to assure their comfort. Historians Norrece Jones (Virginia Commonwealth University) and Elizabeth O’Leary (Virginia Museum of Fine Arts) discuss the transition from slavery to wage labor in the Gilded Age South and parallel viewpoints of the server and served.
