 | Esq. John Finch - 1833 - عدد الصفحات: 486
...season. I asked a negro the reason of this custom, he replied, " Massa, fire is our blanket. It keeps us The quantity of wood consumed in their huts is very...it is still standing in the field. By striking it near the ground or at the top, they make it discourse most exellent music. The bandjo is another instrument... | |
 | 1834 - عدد الصفحات: 402
...and have a number of amusements. These vary in different states ; the slaves follow the example of their masters. In Maryland, dancing is fashionable...it is still standing in the field. By striking it near the ground or at the top, they make it discourse most excellent mnsic. The bandjo is another instrument... | |
 | Francis Edward Abernethy - 1996 - عدد الصفحات: 388
...British traveler, John Finch, encountered the same artifact in the United States, where, he reported, "A black boy will make an excellent fiddle out of a gourd and some string."9 Actually, as in Africa, the American article was usually strung with horsehair — in the... | |
 | Dena J. Epstein - 2003 - عدد الصفحات: 468
...in judgment upon me/58 Most fiddlers, however, played for dancing. In 1833 an Englishman wrote that "every negro is a musician from his birth. A black...an excellent fiddle out of a gourd and some string. . . . The supreme ambition of every negro is to procure a real violin. . . . An instrument of music... | |
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A planter informed me it was good policy to employ oxen on a plantation, because the slaves could not ride them on these excursions. Almost every night parties take place among the slaves on the plantations ; they assemble from a great distance, and have... 