Slaves, bondservants, and women emptied them into the privy. There were chamberpots very early, probably when the first larger villages were set up anywhere in the world that had a class structure.
--- On Sun, 12/19/10, [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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Subject: Re: Colonial Faux Stone
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Date: Sunday, December 19, 2010, 9:15 AM
It would be interesting to know where and when the use of chamberpots came
in, in relation to outhouses and privies, which I have always assumed to be
synonymous. Chamberpots would seem to be the more urban and outhouses
the more rural means of dealing with the issue of ... waste. Except
that somebody had to empty the chamberpot, ad where were they emptied?.
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