{"version":"1.0","provider_name":"Digital Childhoods","provider_url":"https:\/\/shcydigitalchildhoods.org\/dir","author_name":"Megan Buiocchi","author_url":"https:\/\/shcydigitalchildhoods.org\/dir\/author\/mbuiocchi\/","title":"Recovering the Liveried Boy of Colonial South Carolina - Digital Childhoods","type":"rich","width":600,"height":338,"html":"<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"r2UIiDxch8\"><a href=\"https:\/\/shcydigitalchildhoods.org\/dir\/recovering-the-liveried-boy-of-colonial-south-carolina\/\">Recovering the Liveried Boy of Colonial South Carolina<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" src=\"https:\/\/shcydigitalchildhoods.org\/dir\/recovering-the-liveried-boy-of-colonial-south-carolina\/embed\/#?secret=r2UIiDxch8\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" title=\"&#8220;Recovering the Liveried Boy of Colonial South Carolina&#8221; &#8212; Digital Childhoods\" data-secret=\"r2UIiDxch8\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\"><\/iframe><script>\n\/*! This file is auto-generated *\/\n!function(d,l){\"use strict\";l.querySelector&&d.addEventListener&&\"undefined\"!=typeof URL&&(d.wp=d.wp||{},d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage||(d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage=function(e){var t=e.data;if((t||t.secret||t.message||t.value)&&!\/[^a-zA-Z0-9]\/.test(t.secret)){for(var s,r,n,a=l.querySelectorAll('iframe[data-secret=\"'+t.secret+'\"]'),o=l.querySelectorAll('blockquote[data-secret=\"'+t.secret+'\"]'),c=new RegExp(\"^https?:$\",\"i\"),i=0;i<o.length;i++)o[i].style.display=\"none\";for(i=0;i<a.length;i++)s=a[i],e.source===s.contentWindow&&(s.removeAttribute(\"style\"),\"height\"===t.message?(1e3<(r=parseInt(t.value,10))?r=1e3:~~r<200&&(r=200),s.height=r):\"link\"===t.message&&(r=new URL(s.getAttribute(\"src\")),n=new URL(t.value),c.test(n.protocol))&&n.host===r.host&&l.activeElement===s&&(d.top.location.href=t.value))}},d.addEventListener(\"message\",d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage,!1),l.addEventListener(\"DOMContentLoaded\",function(){for(var e,t,s=l.querySelectorAll(\"iframe.wp-embedded-content\"),r=0;r<s.length;r++)(t=(e=s[r]).getAttribute(\"data-secret\"))||(t=Math.random().toString(36).substring(2,12),e.src+=\"#?secret=\"+t,e.setAttribute(\"data-secret\",t)),e.contentWindow.postMessage({message:\"ready\",secret:t},\"*\")},!1)))}(window,document);\n\/\/# sourceURL=https:\/\/shcydigitalchildhoods.org\/dir\/wp-includes\/js\/wp-embed.min.js\n<\/script>\n","thumbnail_url":"https:\/\/shcydigitalchildhoods.org\/dir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Aaron-Photo.jpg","thumbnail_width":927,"thumbnail_height":1000,"description":"In Aaron Michael Hoggle&#8217;s article &#8220;&#8216;I Have Bestowed a Livery:&#8217; An Enslaved Boy in English Servant&#8217;s Dress in Colonial South Carolina&#8221;, the titular boy remains nameless. What we do know is that the boy&#8211;likely around nine or ten&#8211;worked under Elizabeth Massingberd Hyrne, a wealthy English widow and merchant planter, as a personal servant and social escort. For the elite white society of colonial South Carolina, Elizabeth&#8217;s &#8220;liveried boy&#8221; functioned as a status symbol, a human objectification that gestured at her gentility and elitism much like the decorative aspects of her home. Meanwhile Elizabeth&#8217;s livery stripped the young boy of his"}