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.

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