Joseph Wilson and William D. Wilson, Sketches of the Higher Classes of Colored Society (Philadelphia, 1841), 58-59.
Item
Title
Joseph Wilson and William D. Wilson, Sketches of the Higher Classes of Colored Society (Philadelphia, 1841), 58-59.
Includes music itself or text of song
no
Identity of singers; solo/group
free, upperclass women
Voice/instrument
voice, instrument
"piano-forte," guitar, voice
Space/room
parlor?
activity
social gathering
Geographical location
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Excerpt
With the young ladies at home they pass their evenings agreeably if so disposed. It is rarely that the visitor in the different families where there are two or three ladies, will not find one or more of them competent to perform on the piano - forte, guitar, or some other appropriate musical instrument; and these, with singing and conversation on whatever suitable topics that may offer, constitute the amusements of their evenings at home.
Context
Wilson mentions that when someone visits a home that has ladies living there it is likely that they will be playing a musical instrument and/or singing.