Christian Schultz, Jr., Travels on an Inland Voyage Through the States, Volume II (New York, 1810), 195.

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Title

Christian Schultz, Jr., Travels on an Inland Voyage Through the States, Volume II (New York, 1810), 195.

Includes music itself or text of song

no

Identity of singers; solo/group

free?
group

Space/room

ballroom

activity

attending a ball

Geographical location

New Orleans, Louisiana

Excerpt

The season for balls is already past; of course I shall have no oppurtunity of saying any thing respecting them, except from information. It appears, that the fashionable part of the city is divided into two parties, who have each their own respective ball-rooms. That of the whites is sacred to themselves, nor can any white lady, who is known to be in the least degree tainted with the blood of Africa, ever gain admittance there. The coulered people have likewise their separate ball-room, from which all are excluded who have not some white blood in their veins. The white gentlemen of course are freely admitted, who generally prefer this assembly to their own, which it at all times surpasses both in the elegance of its decorations, and the splendour of the dress company.

Context

Schultz is giving some information on the balls that took place in New Orleans during his travel through the United States.

Bias of author

Bias presented in this text is about average for nineteenth-century sources written by learned, traveling white men.

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