Charleston William Faux, Memorable Days in America, Part 1 (London, 1823), 100.

Item

Title

Charleston William Faux, Memorable Days in America, Part 1 (London, 1823), 100.

Includes music itself or text of song

no

Identity of singers; solo/group

enslaved
group

Voice/instrument

voice
voice

Space/room

plantation

Timbre

"shout"

Geographical location

South Carolina?

Excerpt

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.

Context

Describes enslaved finishing work on the plantation.

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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