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from New Year’s Day to Christmas, giving Christmas the added poignancy of a family reunion when fathers and husbands came home to see their children born since the last Hiring Day. The knowledge that the men hired out for the coming year would be leaving on New Year’s Day, not to be seen again for a year, added sorrow to the joy of the season.Brought to you by Encyclopedia Virginia at the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities.
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