Joseph Wilson and William D. Wilson, Sketches of the Higher Classes of Colored Society (Philadelphia, 1841), 30.
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Title
Joseph Wilson and William D. Wilson, Sketches of the Higher Classes of Colored Society (Philadelphia, 1841), 30.
Includes music itself or text of song
no
Identity of singers; solo/group
free, upperclass women
Voice/instrument
voice, instrument
Geographical location
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Excerpt
In the departments of the lighter accomplishments, likewise, the higher classes of colored society show much advancement and proficiency. The young ladies, especially, are deserving of notice in this respect. In addition to the usual branches of education, many of them show much taste and skill in painting, instrumental music, singing, and the various departments of ornamental needlework, & c . They, too, have their literary associations for mutual improvement. The order of their exercises in these, consists, principally, of readings and recitations of appropriate compositions, both original and selected. It has not transpired, that the ladies' associations have yet introduced the form of systematic debates.
Context
Wilson is describing some of the talents that young ladies in the upper class learn.