Henry C. Knight, Letters from the South and West, 77
Item
Title
Henry C. Knight, Letters from the South and West, 77
Includes music itself or text of song
no
Identity of singers; solo/group
enslaved
group
Voice/instrument
voice
voice
Space/room
plantation
activity
Juicing apples to make cider
Timbre
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Ornamentation / improvisation
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genre
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Geographical location
"a fine plantation on the banks of the Rappahannock." Virginia
Notable adjectives
"ponderous" "merry" "lustily"
Excerpt
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.
Context
Knight is describing Virginia plantation life in a letter
Bias of author
Knight was an Episcopal clergyman from MA