Henry C. Knight, Letters from the South and West, 77
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Title
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Henry C. Knight, Letters from the South and West, 77
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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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activity
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Juicing apples to make cider
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Timbre
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Ornamentation / improvisation
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genre
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Geographical location
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"a fine plantation on the banks of the Rappahannock." Virginia
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Notable adjectives
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"ponderous" "merry" "lustily"
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Excerpt
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Instead of having a cheap apple-mill for cider, they scoop out a long trough,and into this empty the apples; and then may you see long rows of slaves, of both sexes, arranged up and down the sides, with ponderous pounders, and their shining black arms liked up and down in order, as they quash the pomace; and, as they drink what juice they please, they get merry, and sing lustily to the strokes of their tall weighty wooden pestles.
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Context
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Knight is describing Virginia plantation life in a letter
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Bias of author
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Knight was an Episcopal clergyman from MA