Isaac Granger Jefferson, Memoirs of a Monticello Slave (Virginia, 1847), 8.
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Title
Isaac Granger Jefferson, Memoirs of a Monticello Slave (Virginia, 1847), 8.
Includes music itself or text of song
no
Identity of singers; solo/group
enslaved
solo
Voice/instrument
instrument
drum
Space/room
plantation
Geographical location
Charlottesville, Virginia (Monticello)
Excerpt
He was then big enough to beat the
drum: but could’nt raise it off the ground: would hold it tilted over to
one side & beat on it that way.
drum: but could’nt raise it off the ground: would hold it tilted over to
one side & beat on it that way.