House slaves worked within the owner's residence or on domestic tasks such as cooking, cleaning, childcare, and serving the needs of the slave owner's family. They often had closer contact with the slave owner and their family members.
Wife of master: Clean the rooms till I come back from the market
Johny:Yes Yes me pro clener
House slaves
Fogey/fogy /fougi/ sl. (early 18C+, orig. Scot) old-fashioned, stuck-in-the mud.
Person with old fashioned ideas which he is unwilling to change: Come to the disco and stop being such an old fogey!
You think me an old fogeyand an old tory, his thoughtful voice said. I saw three generations since O’Connel’s time. I remember the famine. Do you know that the orange lodges agitated for repeal of the union twenty years before O’Connel did or before the prelates of your communion denounced him as a demagogue? You fenians forget some things. (James Joyce, Ulysses. Penguin Books,1992. p. 38)