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.

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