Back to All Events

Tuesday Trades: The Many Skills of Peter Deadfoot, Revisited


  • The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation Williamsburg, VA USA (map)

When Peter Deadfoot ran away from enslavement, he was described as "an indifferent shoemaker, a good butcher, plowman, and carter; an excellent sawyer and waterman, understands breaking oxen well, and is one of the best scythemen...in America; in short, he is so ingenious a fellow, that he can turn his hand to any thing." Join a group of Historic Tradespeople for an exploration of these many skills, what it would have taken for one man to learn them all, and the lives of skilled enslaved people in colonial Virginia HERE.