Over the years, Dickinson had hired an ethnically diverse group of servants: African American gardeners, Yankee seamstresses, Native American laborers, stablemen from England, and maids from Ireland.

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And in particular, dairy maids, whose responsibility was to milk cows, and so they had a very intimate relationship with cattle, often didn't get disease.

特别是挤奶女工,她们的工作就是挤奶,她们与奶牛有紧密的关系,通常不会得天花

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while her maids and stablemen, gardeners and laundry workers were forgotten.

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