Charleston William Faux, Memorable Days in America, Part 1 (London, 1823), 100.
Item
Title
Charleston William Faux, Memorable Days in America, Part 1 (London, 1823), 100.
Includes music itself or text of song
no
Identity of singers; solo/group
enslaved
group
Voice/instrument
voice
voice
Space/room
plantation
Timbre
"shout"
Geographical location
South Carolina?
Excerpt
My landlord, Mr. Calder, during his last visit to Scotland, was imprisoned on a charge of endeavouring to force his negro back to America. The poor negro's chains fell off, when he reached old Scotland, where he now lives, a free man. At sunset, a few evenings since, while among plantations, suddenly burst upon my ear an earth rending shout. It proceeded from negroes shouting three times three, on finishing their task.
Context
Describes enslaved finishing work on the plantation.
Bias of author
Bias presented in this text is about average for nineteenth-century sources written by learned, traveling white men.