Charleston William Faux, Memorable Days in America, Part 1 (London, 1823), 100.
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Title
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Charleston William Faux, Memorable Days in America, Part 1 (London, 1823), 100.
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Includes music itself or text of song
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no
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Identity of singers; solo/group
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enslaved
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group
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Voice/instrument
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voice
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voice
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Space/room
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plantation
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Timbre
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"shout"
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Geographical location
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South Carolina?
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Excerpt
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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.
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Context
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Describes enslaved finishing work on the plantation.
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Bias of author
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Bias presented in this text is about average for nineteenth-century sources written by learned, traveling white men.