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VIDEO: The Bower and its Families Part 3
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POST: The Bower and its Families Part 3 (beginning to 3.23 in the video)
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The Bower and its Families Part 2 (with bibliography)
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This is the second of about four videos.
I am working with Charles Fox, whose family descended from the remarkable John H. Fox, the owner/operator of three different farms and community leader, revered upon his death and who was born enslaved at the Bower.
I was absorbed in the question of how could and why did those enslaved sang,laughed and danced and even stayed up without sleeping and still working long days in the fields. And yes it is true as a consistent fact of life in Virginia in the early 19th century. I found the same observations in five different diaries in this immediate region. And I came to realize a great truth in this fact which will be explored in the third video. We have been served terribly with descriptions of enslaved peersons as being "child-like and pathetic" ignoring the obvious reality that they received their almost superhuman strength coming from their faith and African musical tradition. That African Americans routinely become the best in any athletic field they enter and the worldwide influence of their musical talents – gospel blues swing jazz motown etc. just underscore these earlier daily practices so long ago.
Glamorous and famous for its visitors (Washington Irving, Robert E. Lee, Jeb Stuart’s entire staff lived there for a month), the pre-Civil War owners practiced people-owning on a large scale – usually about sixty enslaved persons who kept up production there from day to day. A close reading of daily accounts reveals just how much the deepest, knowledge of hunting, cooking, horses etc resided in the most experienced persons of color.
It became famous as the place John Pendleton Kennedy, a relative from Baltimore who also supported Edgar Allan Poe, based his widely read book: "Swallow Barn: A Sojourn in the Old Dominion," that was published in 1832 and 1850.
It was a divided family, with regard to the Civil War, with author Kennedy opposing secession, the Dandridges at the Bower strongly supporting, or as Philip Kennedy put it – Adam Dandridge ate a strong "allowance of the insane root" to quote from Macbeth.
It might include a tragic love story. When John Fox was born in 1845 Adam Stephen Dandridge II was the only adult white male at The Bower.
It circles around Adam Dandridge II and Charles Fox’s great great grandmother "Mary" who was killed at the Bower.
It also follows the incredibly impressive John Fox, one of Mary’s five surviving children and culminates with Charles Fox’s powerfully impressive, of-the-earth, wisdom-dispensing grandfather, Charles Washington Fox.
We’ll leave it at that.
Care is taken to stay consistent with all information in official records (death certificates, Census, marriage records, deeds, and wills) in addition to the Fox family oral tradition, first transmitted by John Fox, with his eye-witness knowledge.
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00: – Michael Praetorius: Dances from Terpsichore, Courante
Voices of Music over images 1-7 to :54 – youtube.com
Michael Praetorius: Dances from Terpsichore, Courante
Voices of Music
Hanneke van Proosdij and David Tayler
Directors
Musicians (left to right)
Carla Moore, Gabrielle Wunsch, Lisa Grodin and
Maxine Nemerovski, baroque violins
Maria Caswell, baroque viola
Peter Maund, riqq
Elisabeth Reed and Tanya Tomkins, baroque cellos
Farley Pearce, violone
Hanneke van Proosdij, harpsichord
David Tayler, archlute & percussion
youtube.com
www.youtube.com/watch?v=yoGvKFSvs0o
1.
Two Women with Head-Ties, Jamaica, 1808-1815 – loc.gov
web4.encyclopediavirginia.org
web4.encyclopediavirginia.org/slave_images/Slavery/detail…
2.
Robert Greenhow Jr., ca. 1808, Charles B. J. Févret de Saint-Mémin (French, 1770 – 1852), pastel and crayon on toned paper, 18 3/8 x 14 in. (47.9 x 35.6 cm.). Gift of Mrs. William R. Scott 98.3.3/3
vmfa.museum
www.vmfa.museum/tours/audio-tours/web-tour-friend-heart-c…
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Man Smoking a Pipe, ca. 1800-1825
slaveryimages.org
www.slaveryimages.org/s/slaveryimages/item/1480/mirador
4.
Mrs. Robert Greenhow Sr. (Mary Ann Willis), ca. 1808, Charles B. J. Févret de Saint-Mémin, (French, 1770 – 1852), pastel and crayon on toned paper, 19 5/8 x 13 7/8 in. (49.8 x 35.3 cm. ). Gift of Mrs. William R. Scott 98.3.1/3
vmfa.museum
www.vmfa.museum/tours/audio-tours/web-tour-friend-heart-c…
5. Tangerian Girl by José Tapiro y Baro – 1891. Dahesh Museum of Art in New York
arthistoryproject.com
arthistoryproject.com/artists/jose-tapiro-y-baro/tangeria…
6.
Robert Greenhow Sr., ca. 1808, Charles B. J. Févret de Saint-Mémin (French, 1770 – 1852), pastel and crayon on toned paper, 19 5/8 x 14 1/8 in. (48.8 x 35.9 cm.). Gift of Mrs. William R. Scott 98.3.2/3
vmfa.museum
www.vmfa.museum/tours/audio-tours/web-tour-friend-heart-c…
7.
Absalam by SANTIAGO ARCOS Y MEGALDE
bonhams.com
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8. Title
9. Bower aerial
Google Maps
google.com/maps
www.google.com/maps/@39.3664719,-77.9554242,1762m/data=!3…
10. rear exit The Bower taken by Edwin Fitzpatrick
Jefferson County Historical Society (1991). "Between the Shenandoah & the Potomac."
Charles Town, WV: self-published. p. ADD
11. brief moving dresses no sound – Gone With the Wind (fair use)
12. Portrait of Adam Stephen Dandridge, Sr. (1782-1821) by Charles Peale Polk 1799-1800
emuseum.history.org
emuseum.history.org/objects/28061/portrait-of-adam-stephe…
13. same as 11
14. Portrait of Sarah Pendleton Dandridge (Mrs. Adam Stephen Dandridge, Sr.)(1785-1855)
by James W. Macoughtry, Jr. 1831
emuseum.history.org
emuseum.history.org/objects/42669/portrait-of-sarah-pendl…
15. The first quadrille at Almack’s From Recollections of Captain Gronow (1850)
pinterest.com
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16. The "Trenis" Quadrille, Plate 19 from "Le Bon Genre," 1805
pinterest.com
www.pinterest.com/pin/427349452145394118/
17. swirling dress
Gone With tHe Wind fair use and
18. Figure 11. A German Cotillion, Vienna, c.1825. From Scenes du Bal by Charles Henry.
regencydances.org
www.regencydances.org/paper011.php
19. Object: Le baiser deviné; Series: Le Bon Genre – 1812
britishmuseum.org
www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1866-0407-902
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1:41 – Summer Nights from Desert Winds produced by Shana Aisenberg over images 20-26 to 3:23
2:22 – FX carriages, hooves, horses over images 24-26 to 3:23
2:24 – FX Owl frogs autumn over images 24-25 to 3:01
20. Spider’s web in the sun
21. James Kirke Paulding
commons.wikimedia.org
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:JKPaulding.jpg
& history.navy.mil
www.history.navy.mil/photos/pers-us/uspers-p/jk-pauld.htm
Author Government of the United States
22. Joseph of Egypt
frchriszugger.com
frchriszugger.com/2018/03/21/joseph-of-egypt-and-christ/
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J. K. Paulding: I once knew a worthy old lady, who never saw or heard any thing in this World that did not put her in mind of Joseph in Egypt. Whenever any thing was told her, no matter what,
23. A pretty girl and an old woman both taking snuff. Coloured stipple engraving after L. Boilly, ca. 1827.
wellcomecollection.org INCLUDE Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
wellcomecollection.org/works/q6j67tvc
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she would take a pinch of snuff, and exclaim with a devotional air, “Ah! that puts me in mind of Joseph in Egypt.” Nobody could tell why; but so it was
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Paulding, James Kirke. (1835). "Letters from the South By a Northern man."
New-York : Harper & brothers
p. 50 Vol 2
babel.hathitrust.org
babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uiug.30112046404643&vi…
24. TITLE James Kirke Paulding in 1816, while heading north in the Shenandoah Valley
to Martinsburg:
25. Shenandoah Valley by William Louis Sonntag, Sr. 1859–1860Virginia Historical Society
commons.wikimedia.org
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Shenandoah_Valley_William…
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In traversing this mountain region, one of the first things that struck me was the solemn, severe silence which prevailed every where, and only broken at distant intervals, by the note of the cock of the woods; the chirping of a ground squirrel; the crash of a falling tree, or the long echoes of the fowler’s gun, which render the silence, thus broken in upon for a moment, still more striking.
p. 116 vol 1
babel.hathitrust.org
babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uiug.30112046404387&vi…
26. Drawing by Garth Williams, 1953 version of Little House in the Big Woods, pg. 123
silverhomestead.com
silverhomestead.com/how-to-make-brown-sugar/
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In many places the only traces of human agency are the incisions of the sugar maple, and the little troughs at the foot of the tree turned upside down, to wait the flowing of the sap in the spring.
Paulding Vol. 1 p. 118
babel.hathitrust.org
babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uiug.30112046404387&vi…
CF 3 3.23 5.32
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3:23 – FX hum of voices over images 27-30 to 5:32
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Begins
Paulding, James Kirke. (1817) "Letters from the South, written during an excursion in the summer of 1816." New York, Published by James Eastburn & co.
pp. 117-131
p. 121
archive.org/details/lettersfromsouth01paul/page/121/mode/1up
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27. James Kirke Paulding
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www.history.navy.mil/photos/pers-us/uspers-p/jk-pauld.htm
Author Government of the United States
At one of the taverns along the road, we were set down in the same room with a man, who was
28.
Eugène Pelletan by Nadar 1855–59 – Purchase, The Howard Gilman Foundation Gift and Rogers Fund,
metmuseum.org/
www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/266480
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an ill-looking, hard-featured, pock-marked, fellow. He was going, it seems, to Richmond.
WARNING DISTURBING ACCOUNTS OF EXTREME CRUELTY
All along the road, I made it his business to inquire where lived a man who might perhaps be tempted to sell him his slaves and when I got some half a dozen of them, I tied their hands behind their backs, and drove them three or four hundred miles, or more, bare-headed, and half naked, I gave out that they were runaway slaves I was carrying home to their masters.
On one occasion a black woman exposed this fallacy, and told the story of her being kidnapped; and (123) when I got her into a wood out of hearing, I beat her, till her back was white."
I married all the men and women I bought, because they would sell better for being man and wife !
"For many is the time I have separated wives from husbands, and husbands from wives, and parents from children ;
but then I made them amends by marrying them again as soon as I had a chance
I made one bad purchase, though," I bought a young mulatto girl, a lovely creature, — a great bargain. She had been the favourite of her master, who had lately married.
The difficulty was, to get her to go ; for she loved her master.
However, I swore most bitterly I was only going to take her to her mother at , and she went with me; though she seemed to doubt me very much.
But when she discovered at last that we were out of the State, I thought she would go mad ; and, in fact, the next night, drowned herself in the river close by.
I lost a good five hundred dollars by this foolish trick,
p. 121
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29. James Kirke Paulding
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commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:JKPaulding.jpg
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www.history.navy.mil/photos/pers-us/uspers-p/jk-pauld.htm
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page 120
it is seldom we see the ties of kindred or of conjugal affection, stronger than in the poor negro. He will travel twelre, fifteen, or twenty miles, to see his wife and children, after his daily
30. by Miguel Ângelo Lupi 1879. This is a couple of former slaves that accompained a portuguese aristocrat, Serpa Pinto, in his voyages through Africa
pinterest.es
www.pinterest.es/pin/443886107023349726/
page 121
labour is over, and return in the morning to his labour again. If he obtains his liberty, he will often devote the first years of his liberty to buying their freedom; — thus setting an example of conjugal and parental affection, which the white man may indeed admire ; but, it is feared, would seldom imitate.
pp. 120-121
archive.org
archive.org/details/lettersfromsouth01paul/page/120/mode/1up
Paulding, James Kirke. (1817) "Letters from the South, written during an excursion in the summer of 1816." New York, Published by James Eastburn & co.
pp. 117-131
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Gourd Banjo and Hambone on a Mississippi Porch
Markus James – gourd banjo
Calvin Jackson – hambone
From the album "Head For The Hills" by Markus James;
As heard in the HBO film "The Immortal Life Of Henrietta Lacks" featuring Oprah Winfrey
www.facebook.com/markusjamesm...
youtube.com
www.youtube.com/watch?v=gTKE3IaVVmA
Images 31, 32 and 34-38
The Old Plantation attributed to John Rose
Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Museum, Williamsburg, Virginia
wikipedia.org
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Old_Plantation#/media/File:Slav…
33. Bower Farm Leetown WV – Jim Surkamp
39. The Highest Bidder by Harry Roseland
encore-editions.com
www.encore-editions.com/to-the-highest-bidder-by-harry-ro…
40.The Power of Music by Wm Sidney Mount – 1847
theimaginativeconservative.org
theimaginativeconservative.org/2018/11/images-america-wil…
41. "Aunt Lucy" Hermitage – 1915
Essie Collins Matthews, Aunt Phebe, Uncle Tom and Others: Character Studies Among the Old Slaves of the South, Fifty Years After: illustrated from photographs made by the author in the cabins and on the plantations (Columbus, Ohio, 1915)
slaveryimages.org
slaveryimages.org/s/slaveryimages/item/1553
Aunt Phebe, Uncle Tom and Other, p. 104
42. Man with axe
Kennedy, John Pendleton, (1856) "Swallow barn, or, A sojourn in the Old Dominion." New York, G.P. Putnam & Company.
p. 404
hathitrust.org
babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=nyp.33433076089170&vie…
43a. Head of a Black man by Eastman Johnson – 1868
wikiart.org
www.wikiart.org/en/eastman-johnson/head-of-a-black-man-1868
43b. Frank Wagoner by D.H. Strother Harpers Feb. 1855, p. 300
babel.hathitrust.org
babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015056090080&vie…
44. The Banjo Player by Wm Sidney Mount – 1856
theimaginativeconservative.org
theimaginativeconservative.org/2018/11/images-america-wil…
45. Swallow Barn man with pipe
Kennedy, John Pendleton, (1856) "Swallow barn, or, A sojourn in the Old Dominion." New York, G.P. Putnam & Company.
p. 448
hathitrust.org
babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=nyp.33433076089170&vie…
46a. Bill Napper by D.H. Strother 1845
P.95.30.391pg13
West Virginia and Regional History Center David Hunter Strother, Artist, Artwork and Papers Series 6. Artworks, 1833-1887, undated
archives.lib.wvu.edu
archives.lib.wvu.edu/repositories/2/archival_objects/105044
46b. detail The Power of Music by Wm Sidney Mount – 1847
theimaginativeconservative.org
theimaginativeconservative.org/2018/11/images-america-wil…
47a. “A Swedish Gentleman instructing a Negro Prince” by Carl Fredric von Breda – 1789
Karolina Kristensson, © Nordiska museet
digitaltmuseum.se
digitaltmuseum.se/011023459953/tavla
47b. cook by D.H. Strother Harpers Jan. 1856 p. 177
babel.hathitrust.org
babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015056090064&vie…
47c. Antique Martinique Merchant
www.picclick.com
pinterest.com
www.pinterest.com/pin/463589355373107433/
48. Shell Mound Station by D.H. Strother
P.95.30.393pg4a
West Virginia and Regional History Center David Hunter Strother, Artist, Artwork and Papers Series 6. Artworks, 1833-1887, undated
archives.lib.wvu.edu
archives.lib.wvu.edu/repositories/2/archival_objects/105044
SOURCES of given persons: names in this chapter:
First Section
Pinco – from account book of A.S.Dandridge II – Jefferson County Museum & The Mighty Myth of the Happy Plantation at civilwarscholars.com;
Carey (Swallow Barn);
Cate, Eliza, Serina, Anne and Mary (wills of Adam Stephen and his daughter, Anne Stephen Hunter),
Second Section – Source of persons’ names in the montage
Walter Dean Myers, who was born in Martinsburg, descended from the Dennis family who worked at The Bower and has become a respected author, wrote this in his book, “Now Is Your Time”:
“In 1849, Adam Stephen Dandridge II lived at The Bower and ran the plantation. His brother Philip lived nearby. When Philip needed to secure his loans, he put up part of his inheritance, which consisted of part of the Bower lands and his Africans:
‘The following slaves, the property of the said Philip P. Dandridge, now in his possession in Jefferson County, or in the custody of Dr. Gellot Hollingsworth and Samuel Hollingsworth, in the State of Louisiana, together with the increase (children) of said slaves – vis; Cato, Henny, George, Robert, John, Daniel, James, Simon, Peter, Tina, Caroline, Leah, Mary Ann and her children, Rachael, Ann, Louisa & children, Frances, Margaret, Patty, including all of the slaves of the said Philip P. Dandridge, whether named or not. . . to secure a debt of said P. P. Dandridge’ – (Myers, P. 99)
The Mighty Myth of the Happy Plantation
civilwarscholars.com/2011/06/sample-post/
interview 2002 with Jim Surkamp
civilwarscholars.com
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7:20 – Shana Aisenberg on banjo with accompaniment over images 49
49. "Mary" semblance
David Hunter Strother, Sketches of “contrabands,” enslaved African Americans who crossed into the federal lines, 1862. Courtesy of the Library of Virginia.
southernspaces.org
southernspaces.org/2010/retelling-virginias-migration-his…
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I got this from Uncle Dewey because he spoke for black history month down here. He said that somebody told the mistress there was four little foxes down there looking out the window: She got the market basket and went down ‘thought he was talking about animals.
And they were these Negro children. So of course she told the master. So he said: ‘Well just bring ‘em on up here and he put ‘em in the kitchen. And he said they would take a tub, like a foot tub, put bread in it, and milk, pour it in there and they ate with the cats and dogs under the kitchen table.
But by being at the big house, they learned to talk. They learned to read. They just learned things. When you’re ’round, you pick up – he was not back there in the field somewhere.
So, one of ’em became a preacher. One of ’em became a cook. And that one I think – we would say – like a butler. He was ssomething like – if you saw "Roots" – he was like Chicken John. And as I said, the girl, they lost trace of her. Steve went to Ohio. So they lost trace of him. And farmer John, see, he bought the oxen and he cut lumber. He was known as a lumber jacket.
And if you would read the history of St. Paul’s Church, it was John Fox – that’s my grandfather – It was George Johnson – grandfather on my mother’s side, a Carter and I think three other men – bought that piece of land where that church is. They paid for it. An’ lot of the lumber in the church John Fox gave.
50. Bertha Jones, Jefferson Co. NAACP Executive Committee
jeffcomuseumwv.pastperfectonline.com
jeffcomuseumwv.pastperfectonline.com/archive/75847923-F4F…
51. Sunday Morning in Virginia by Winslow Homer – 1877 Cincinnati Art Museum
commons.wikimedia.org
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Winslow_Homer_-_Sunday_Mo…
52a. A patent of nobility by D. H. Strother Harpers July, 1866 p. 139
babel.hathitrust.org
babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015056090353&vie…
52b
Benjamin Fox
findagrave.com
www.findagrave.com/memorial/190534275/benjamin-f-fox
53.
Humphery black child on horseback by D.H. Strother
P.95.30.390pg13
West Virginia and Regional History Center David Hunter Strother, Artist, Artwork and Papers Series 6. Artworks, 1833-1887, undated
archives.lib.wvu.edu
archives.lib.wvu.edu/repositories/2/archival_objects/105044
54.
Mary Kindling the fire by D.H. Strother Harpers Aug, 1855 p. 295
babel.hathitrust.org
babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015056090072&vie…
55.
Steve Aunt Winnie by D.F. Strother Harper’s Aug, 1856 p. 310
babel.hathitrust.org
babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015056089801&vie…
56. Bower field and horse by Jim Surkamp
57a.
(John Fox semblance) African American boy sitting by D. H. Strother – 1864
P.95.30.345
West Virginia and Regional History Center David Hunter Strother, Artist, Artwork and Papers Series 6. Artworks, 1833-1887, undated
archives.lib.wvu.edu
archives.lib.wvu.edu/repositories/2/archival_objects/105044
57b. John Henry Fox – courtesy Charles Fox
58
St. Paul’s Baptist Church
Kearneysville, WV
google.com/maps
www.google.com/maps/uv?pb=!1s0x89c9ffadeda3091b%3A0x5c698…
later
"Baltimore" tea et by D.H. Strother 1860
P.95.30.27
West Virginia and Regional History Center David Hunter Strother, Artist, Artwork and Papers Series 6. Artworks, 1833-1887, undated
archives.lib.wvu.edu
archives.lib.wvu.edu/repositories/2/archival_objects/105044
The Wood-pile by D.F. Strother Harper’s Aug, 1856 p. 316
babel.hathitrust.org
babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015056089801&vie…
for litle potatoe segment
CF 3 9:48 12.14
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9:48 – hum over images 59-60 to 10:07
Skip James- Hard Time Killin’ Floor Blues
youtube.com
www.youtube.com/watch?v=UNftrsCMiQs
59. Bower field and horse – Jim Surkamp
60. TITLE
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In 1754, the New Light Baptists, led by Shubal Stearns, came down from Connecticut, crossed into Virginia at the Opequon & clashed head-on with the Episcopal Church – the State religion.
10:08 – "Deliver" New Light Baptist Church of Pittsburgh over images 61-80 to 12:16
starts at 1:52-5:09
New Light Temple Baptist Church (Pittsburgh, PA) Jubilee Choir 1997
youtube.com
www.youtube.com/watch?v=StiBu3Dla74
61 TITLE
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The children of Africa down through the Shenandoah Valley got it at once. They had every day sung and beat the beat for thousands of years.
62. TITLE
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On farms and plantations, they inhabited their Inner Kingdom and together invented and sang out Truth in the Lion’s den. But using these newly learned Biblical stories, they confounded the Lion.
63-80 New Light Temple Baptist Church (Pittsburgh, PA) Jubilee Choir 1997
CF3 12.16 17.00
SOURCES:
"THE COLORED TROOPS AT PETERSBURG" by GEN. HENRY GODDARD THOMAS. in Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Vol. 4. New York: The Century Co.pp. 563-568
CHAPTER 22 – Manassas: The Men Become One by Jim Surkamp
civilwarscholars.com
civilwarscholars.com/2017/03/story-22-manassas-the-men-be…
CHAPTER 22: Manassas Camp – The Men Become One (from Jasper Tjhompson’s Destiny Day)
youtube.com
youtu.be/KSXoj0c5My4#t=2h49m57s
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hum over images 59-60 to 10:07
Skip James- Hard Time Killin’ Floor Blues
youtube.com
www.youtube.com/watch?v=UNftrsCMiQs
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81. TITLE
At any quiet moment together, one might test a tune and sing it into the silence. And the others "study" it, some adding a harmony, or the first person would make the tune or beat better. Others might join. Then more might. And a mountain would
begin to move, lifting hearts.
TITLES:
82. WITH THE U.S. COLORED TROOPS
83. 23RD INFANTRY REGIMENT
84. ON THE EVE OF THE BATTLE OF THE CRATER JULY 30, 1864
85. "STUDY-ING"
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12:56 – Soldier Song by Shana Aisenberg over images 85-92 to 13:35
13:35 – guitar by Shana Aisenberg over images 92-102 to 15:15
15:15 over images 102-104 to 17:10
86, 87, 88
[Wounded colored soldiers at Aikens Landing] taken by E. & H.T. Anthony (Firm) – [New York City : E. & H.T. Anthony Co., photographed between 1862 and 1865, printed later]
loc.gov
www.loc.gov/item/98500957/
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Robert K. Beecham, James Douglas, Voghl Foster, George Kellum, John H. Simms, George W. Taylor, Uriah Perry, Perry Smith, James Smith, William H. Chandler,
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Adam C. Liscomb, Charles Walker, Henry Yates, George H. Briscoe, Peter Churchwell, Zelotis Fessenden, Noble A. Stewart, John W. Thomas, Francis Tucker, Abraham Tuxon, Basil Tyler, Richard Saunders, Alexander Savoy
89.
Musical notation of Soldier Song by Maj. Gen. Henry Thomas
p. 564
archive.org/stream/battlesleadersof04cent#page/564/mode/1up
90. Head of a Man (Ira Frederick Aldridge) by John P. Simpson
tate.org.uk
www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/simpson-head-of-a-man-ira-fr…
dual
91. Maj. Gen Henry Thomas
p. 565
archive.org/stream/battlesleadersof04cent#page/565/mode/1up
92.
Drawing by Ward S. Day, 5th New York, Company C
93.
News from home by Edwin Forbes – Sept. 30, 1863
loc.gov
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Strolling often around the camp their commander Henry G. Thomas observed later:
Any striking event or piece of news was usually eagerly discussed by the white troops, and in the ranks military critics were as plenty and perhaps more voluble than among the officers.
94. & 95.
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Not so with the blacks; important news was usually followed by long silence. They sat about in groups, “studying,” as they called it. They waited, like the Quakers, for the spirit to move; when the spirit moved,
96.
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one of their singers would uplift a mighty voice, like a bard of old, in a wild sort of chant. If he did not strike a sympathetic chord in his hearers,
97 & 98
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if they did not find in his utterance the exponent of their idea, he would sing it again and again, altering sometimes the words, more often the music. If his changes met general acceptance, one voice after another would chime in; a rough harmony of three parts would add itself;
99. 26th United States Colored Volunteer Inf. at Camp William Penn, 1865
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other groups would join his, and the song would become the song of the command.
100.
Camp Fire by Winslow Homer 1880
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One evening Thomas saw this act of creation and wrote down its core.
The joyous guffaw always breaking out about the camp-fire ceased. They formed circles in their company streets and were sitting on the ground intently and solemnly “studying.” At last a heavy voice began to sing,
“We-e looks li-ike we-en a-a-marchin’ on, We looks li-ike men-er-war.”
dual
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Head of a Man (Ira Frederick Aldridge) by John P. Simpson
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Camp Fire by Winslow Homer 1880
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Over and over again he sang it, making slight changes in the melody. The rest listened to him intently; no sign of approval or disapproval escaped their lips or appeared on their faces. All at once, when his refrain had struck the right response in their hearts, his group took it up, and shortly half a thousand voices were upraised extemporizing a half dissonant middle part and bass. It was a picturesque scene these dark men, with their white eyes and teeth and full red lips, crouching over a smoldering camp-fire, in dusky shadow, with only the feeble rays of the lanterns of the first sergeants and the lights of the candles dimly showing through the tents. The sound was as weird as the scene, when all the voices struck the low E (last note but one), held it, and then rose to A with a portamento as sonorous as it was clumsy. Until we fought the battle of the crater they sang this every night to the exclusion of all other songs.- Battles & Leaders V. 4
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103. TITLE
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Songs and laughter heal aching hearts, weary bones
104. Full moon
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104. full moon
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TITLES
105.
3 AM July 23rd 1850, a full moon
106.
"The Quarter" of A.S. Dandridge – Leetown, then Va.
107.
The morning of the wheat harvest . . .
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Markus James – gourd banjo
Calvin Jackson – hambone
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108.
As usual, cabins in the Quarter vibrated most of the night with song, dance, and laughter around their fires.
109.
Traveling diarists across Virginia reported for decades that the black workers were incredibly fit, slept little,
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sharing the wee hours in a joyous, private world.
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110. Camp Fire by Winslow Homer 1880
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clockwise begin lower vieer’s right"
110a. & 110b.
Negro Life at the South by Eastman Johnson – 1859 New-York Historical Society, The Robert L. Stuart Collection
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110b. Kitchen at Mount Vernon by Eastman Johnson – 1864 – Mount Vernon
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110c. Dinah by Eastman Johnson – 1867 Gibbes Museum of Art
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110d., 110e., 110f. Georgia Geechee Gullah Ring Shouters
Plantation Dance ring shout (3 still images)
mhenrystl Georgia Geechee Gullah Ring Shouters
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110g. Four Studies of the Head of a Negro by Peter Paul Rubens – 1615 Royal Museum of Fine Arts of Belgium
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110h. Uncle Tom and Little Eva by Edwin Long 1866 – Russell-Cotes Art Gallery & Museum
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110i. Head of a Moor by Peter Paul Rubens – 1620 – Hyde Collection
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110j. Negro Life at the South by Eastman Johnson – 1859 New-York Historical Society, The Robert L. Stuart Collection
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** We’re bakin’ cakes for the ‘morrow
111. Camp Fire by Winslow Homer 1880
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** "Mush Cake" "Corn Cake" lard + cornmeal + water salt
112. Camp Fire by Winslow Homer 1880
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begin Bayard
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At four o’clock in the morning smoke was still rising from the huts of the negroes. They have fire during the entire night, and in the hottest season. Often, instead of sleeping, they smoke, sing or converse, without that loss of sleep affecting them.
114. Dance in Congo Square in the late 18th century, artist’s conception by E. W. Kemble from a century later
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Almost all of them, after a night devoted to pleasure, can take up their labor without
115. Carolus-Duran, l’homme endormi, 1861, hst
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experiencing that weariness that a white man would feel who had been deprived of his rest.
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CHAPTER XXVII
at four o’clock in the morning smoke was still rising from the huts of the negroes
They have fire during the entire night, and in the hottest season. Often, instead of sleeping, they smoke, sing or converse, without that loss of sleep affecting them. Almost all of them, after a night devoted to pleasure, can take up their labor without experiencing that weariness that a white man would feel who had been deprived of his rest.
Bayard, Ferdinand Marie, (1950). "Travels of a Frenchman in Maryland and Virginia,
with a description of Philadelphia and Baltimore, in 1791: or, Travels in the interior of the United States, to Bath, Winchester, in the valley of the Shenandoah, etc., etc., during the summer of 1791." Translated by Ben C. McCary. An Arbor, MU: Edwards Brothers.
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CHAPTER XXVII
I set out at four o’clock in the morning in order to be able to be on the mountains before the sun was too high. A light fog cov ered the valley like a transparent veil, and through which appeared the tree tops, the houses of the planters, as well as the huts of the Negroes, from which smoke was still rising. The slaves have fire during the entire night, and in the hottest season. Often, instead of sleeping, they smoke, sing or converse, without that loss of sleep affecting them. Almost all of them, after a night devoted to pleas ure, can take up their labor without experiencing that weariness that a white man would feel who had been deprived of his rest.
I found the squirrels wide awake. They were climbing with agility in the largest oaks, taking the precaution to keep the entire thickness of the body of the tree between them and me, whom they looked at from time to time to be sure that I had not gone round their file leader. The instinct of self preservation no doubt sug gested to them that precaution which presents the greatest obsta cles to the hunter; but all that ruse does not preserve them from the shot of the enemy; it has made him only more skillful.
In the regions where, as in the Shenandoah Valley, squirrels are very numerous, they are hunted without dogs; but if you want to kill a great number of them, you must get up early in the morn ing and wait for them to return from their nightly wanderings.
There are three species of squirrels, the first differs from the one we know in France only in that it is smaller, and the Amer icans call the members of this group Fox-Squirrel; the second, smaller, has grey fur; the third still smaller, but of the same color, is that of the flying squirrels: the latter have two mem branes which they spread out when they spring from one tree to another. The flesh of the grey squirrels is white and tender: they are roasted and seasoned with cream sauce: the furriers buy their skins.
p. 96
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I never meet a man — unless he is quite old — that he is not whistling ; and the women sing from morning till night. And as to dancing, the hardest day’s work does not restrain their desire to indulge in such pastime.
Swallow Barn pp. 454
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116. The Old Plantation. Courtesy of the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Center, Williamsburg, Va.
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I never met a negro man — unless he is quite old — that he is not whistling;
117. Georgia Geechee Gullah Ring Shouters
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and the women sing from morning till night.
118. Self-Portrait by Eastman Johnson 1865 – Brooklyn Museum
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And as to dancing, the hardest day’s work does not restrain their desire to indulge in such pastime.
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They are great sportsmen, too.
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They angle and haul the seine, and hunt and tend their traps, with a zest that never grows weary.
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Their gayety of heart is constitutional and perennial, and when they are together they are as voluble and noisy. birds. In short, I think them the most good-natured, and happily-constructed human beings I have ever seen.
Swallow Barn
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During the harvest, when their toil is pushed to its utmost, they dance almost the whole night. – Swallow Barn pp. 454-455
119. sunrise over wheat field
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120. Men Harvesting Grain with Scythes
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121. John Pendleton Kennedy, C.1825
by Philip Tilyard
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JPK – wrote of life at The Bower that I know well. I have seen that they are also great sportsmen, too.
122. Mending the Net 1882 by Thomas Eakins
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1882 Mending the Net
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They angle and haul the seine, and hunt and tend their traps,
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123. possum
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with a zest that never grows weary.
124. The Dancing Boy – 1878 by Thomas Eakins
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Their gaiety of heart is constitutional and perennial, and when they are together they are voluble and noisy. In short, I think them the most good-natured, and happily-constructed human beings I have ever seen.
125. Uncle Tom and Little Eva by Edwin Longsden Long – 1866 Russell-Cotes Art Gallery & Museum, Bournemouth
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INSERT PAULING
DEAR FRANK,
126.
The Banjo Lesson 1893 by Henry Ossawa Tanner
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They are by far the most musical of any portion of the inhabitants of the United States, and in the evening I have seen them reclining in their boats on the canal at Richmond, playing on the banjo, and singing in a style — I dare say, equal to a Venetian Gondolier.
Then they whistle as clear as the notes of the fife and their laugh is the very echo of hilarity.
Paulding, James Kirke. (1817) "Letters from the South, written during an excursion in the summer of 1816." New York, Published by James Eastburn & co.
p. 118
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They are by far the most musical of any portion of the inhabitants of the United States, and in the evening I have seen them playing on the banjo, and singing in a style — I dare say, equal to a Venetian Gondolier.
127. African American man singing
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20:08 over image 128 to 20:15
The Best Singing Gondolier at the Venetian, Las Vegas – Tino!
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128. Venetian
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129. James Kirke Paulding
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Then they whistle as clear as the notes of the fife ;
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130.
Irish Hornpipes – Wouter Kellerman on Fife – The Live Sessions (Part 1)
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131
DontWorryBeHappy #Vevo
Bobby McFerrin – Don’t Worry Be Happy (Official Video)
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20:58 – people laughing over images 132-133 to 21:19
Black People Laughing | Try Not To Laugh Challenge
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132. James Kirke Paulding
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and their laugh is the very echo of hilarity.
133. Four Studies of the Head of a Negro (black) by Peter Paul Rubens
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21:25 – Shana Aisenberg banjo over images 133-141 to 22:35
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and their laugh is the very echo of hilarity.
END PAULDING
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He will make himself happy in the traps that have been laid for him; he will roll in their nets and sleep. All doors will fly open to him
134. Jacob Jordaens, Study of a Black Man’s Head (ca. 1620). Medium and size unknown. Formerly New York, Estate of Jacob Goldschmidt; present location unknown
OTHER SOURCE OF ART AFRICAN
Black tronies in seventeenth-centur y Flemish ar t and the African presence
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who has a mildness more defiant than mere courage.
135. Barroom Dancing by John Lewis Krimmel – 1828 –
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He will be always "taken in." To be taken in everywhere is to see
136. The Banjo Lesson 1893 by Henry Ossawa Tannerwikiart.org
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the inside of everything.
SOURCE on the greenhorn
G.K. Chesterton Pick Papers notes
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137. Thoughts of Liberia – Emancipation by Edward White 1861 – New York Historical Society
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137a. You sang
137b. away
137c. being owned
You sang away being owned
138. Four Studies of the Head of a Negro by Peter Paul Rubens
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139 Four Studies of the Head of a Negro by Peter Paul Rubens
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140 Georgia Geechee Gullah Ring Shouters
Plantation Dance ring shout (3 still images)
mhenrystl Georgia Geechee Gullah Ring Shouters
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141 full moon
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JPK
Their fondness for music and dancing is a predominant passion. I never meet a negro man — unless he is quite old — that he is not whistling ; and the women sing from morning till night. And as to dancing, the hardest day’s work does not restrain their desire to indulge in such pastime. During the harvest, when their toil is pushed to its utmost — the time being one of recognized privileges — they dance almost the whole night. They are great sportsmen, too. They angle and haul the seine, and hunt and tend their traps, with a zest that never grows weary. Their gayety of heart is constitutional and perennial, and when they are together they are voluble and noisy. In short, I think them the most good-natured, careless, light-hearted, and happily-constructed human beings I have ever seen.
Swallow Barn pp. 454
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CHAPTER 11 – A Year’s Work in 1850 by Jim Surkamp
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22:45 – FX full summer night sounds over images 142-142b to 23:07
142. Tin Horn 12 Years a Slave movie
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142a. Bower field and horse – Jim Surkamp
142b. Sunrise on wheat field
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23:14 – cutting wheat with scythes over image 143 to 23:55
23:22 – Rosie work song over image 143 to 23:59
Alan Lomax, Negro Prison & Blues Songs Rosie
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143. Men Harvesting Grain with Scythes
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23:59 – Shana Aisenberg on mandolin over images 144-153 to 25:53.
144a. 1850 Poor Richard’s Almanac
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144b. Farmers Nooning by William Sidney Mount – 1836
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146. Corn Husking by Eastman Johnson – 1860
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147. Charleston Vegetable Woman by William Aiken Walker
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148b. A patent of nobility by David Hunter Strother –
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149. The Sower by Jean-François Millet – 1850 Museum of Fine Arts – Gift of Quincy Adams Shaw through Quincy Adams Shaw, Jr., and Mrs. Marian Shaw Haughton
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150a. Cider_Colonial-Press_Retouched
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150b. Campfire
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150c. apple in palm of dark hand
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151a. Catching Hogs by David Hunter Strother 1857 – West Virginia and Regional History Center accession number (W1995.030.004)
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151b. Smoked Ham at the Bonnie Crest Inn, North Carolina by William Aiken Walker – 1886
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152b. (center) “JENNY . . .A GOOD SPINSTER”
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152a. winding yarn by David H. Strother, Harper’s (Aug., 1856)
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152c. Lock’s Old Stephen. by D.H. Strother – 1845. Martinsburg Va. (P.95.30.391pg19)
West Virginia and Regional History Center David Hunter Strother, Artist, Artwork and Papers Series
Kanata Timeline History 1981 (part 1 of 3)
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1981 (part 1 of 3)
January 5, 1981
Kanata residents discussed the past year of the Katimavik-Hazeldean Community Association, including the Association’s incorporation July 16, 1980 and the rash of break-ins the community experienced in January, February, and March of 1980. Kanata Standard, Jan. 9, 1981:2.
January 5, 1981
Two members of the Ontario Municipal Board listened to the Region regarding their opposition to the diversion of Eagleson Road South to a position east of Bridlewood. The hearing was to continue February 9, 1981. Kanata Standard, Jan. 9, 1981:1.
January 5, 1981
Kanata Ladies’ Bowling Section "A" closed with Team One the victors: Marg Anderson, Ev Fraser, Rose Sullivan, and Dot Ollett. Kanata Standard, Jan. 23, 1981:13.
January 6, 1981
Council heard a deputation from members of the Stittsville and District Snowmobile Club, protesting the ban on snowmobile operation on city urban streets and charged Council with a breach of faith based on an accord they believed had been reached in the fall. Kanata Standard, Jan. 9, 1981:1.
January 9, 1981
Mayor Marianne Wilkinson wrote in her Commentary that the Kanata Hydro Commission had taken over the supply of electric power to all parts of Kanata. The Commission, which was operating out of the former Municipal Office buildings, had a few problems the first day, the mayor said, but everything soon ran smoothly. Kanata Standard, Jan. 9, 1981:1.
January 9, 1981
It was announced that the Fraggalosch family of Kanata won the March Hockey Association’s draw for a trip for two to Acapulco, Mexico. Kanata Standard, Jan. 9, 1981:1.
January 9, 1981
It was announced that several hundred Kanata residents from Salter Square, Bering Court, McClintock Way, and Eagleson Manor faced mortgage interest increases of 7 per cent or more. These homeowners had purchased their homes with mortgage interest rates of about 8 per cent under the government’s AHOP subsidized-mortgage programme, which the government decided not to continue. Kanata Standard, Jan. 9, 1981:1.
January 9, 1981
It was announced that Thermocell Insulation Ltd. subcontracted the collection of Kanata’s waste newsprint to Ottawa’s Provincial Sanitation Company. The change, pending Council’s decision on whether or not to continue the program, was believed to make the service more efficient. Kanata Standard, Jan. 9, 1981:1.
January 9, 1981
The Kanata Standard wrote that Fazeela Docter was attempting to organize a Block Parents Program in Beaverbrook. The object of the program was to enlist the aid of residents to provide safe refuge for a child in danger or trouble. Kanata Standard, Jan. 9, 1981:2.
January 9, 1981
A number of women in Bridlewood announced they were looking to form a ladies’ daytime X-country ski club. Kanata Standard, Jan. 9, 1981:2.
January 9, 1981
It was announced that Council had passed a motion to appoint William J. Berry to the Committee of Adjustment. Kanata Standard, Jan. 9, 1981:3.
January 9, 1981
The March Rural Executive welcomed the initiative of Garnie Hewitt in coordinating the operation of the March Central Rink. Kanata Standard, Jan. 9, 1981:3.
January 9, 1981
Campeau Corporation gave permission to the municipality to install gates in the fencing it had placed around a large part of its property north of Beaverbrook in order to maintain public access to ski trails and nature trails. Kanata Standard, Jan. 9, 1981:3.
January 9, 1981
Being the Year of Disabled Persons, the municipality established a committee to bring forward suggestions on special activities or events to commemorate the year. Kanata Standard, Jan. 9, 1981:3.
January 9, 1981
It was announced that raffle tickets needed to be sold to raise money for special treatment for Stephen Courrier, a Glen Cairn boy who was severely brain damaged in an accident in June of 1973. The treatment he received was at the Sptiz Clinic in Philadelphia. Kanata Standard, Jan. 9, 1981:4.
January 9, 1981
Dan Perley wrote in his column that residents had expressed concern that large chunks of land were being held together by the City more to facilitate construction of factories or housing developments than to preserve agriculture or for conservation value. Kanata Standard, Jan. 9, 1981:6.
January 9, 1981
Mike Bedard announced the results of the Bill McNeill Memorial Tournament at the Mlacak Arena. The Midget Crees, the Atom Crees, the Bantam Iroquois, and the Pewee Chiefs all won the "A" Division Championships. Kanata Standard, Jan. 9, 1981:8.
January 9, 1981
It was announced that Kenneth Finch would teach the Kanata Art Club classes again in 1981. Kanata Standard, Jan. 9, 1981:13.
January 9, 1981
The Atom "A" Blazers travelled to Brockville for the Thousand Island International Tournament, at which they achieved second place. Kanata Standard, Jan. 23, 1981:7.
January 10, 1981
The Cubs and Scouts of Kanata held a bottle drive. Kanata Standard, Dec. 19, 1980:7.
January 13, 1981
Ron MaKeekin of the Kanata March Hares Football Club appeared before Council to request financial support for the purchase of trophies. Kanata Standard, Jan. 23, 1981:6.
January 15, 1981
The 1981 Bridlewood Board of Directors was all acclaimed: President–Roy Meikle, Vice-President–Tom Petch, Treasurer–Rick Seaman, Secretary–Stu Chandler. Kanata Standard, Jan. 23, 1981:3.
January 15, 1981
Mike James was appointed to the Bridlewood Transit Committee and Stu Chandler was appointed to the Bridlewood Pathways Committee. Kanata Standard, Jan. 23, 1981:5.
January 16, 1981
A successful bake sale was held by the March Kanata Sailing Club. Kanata Standard, Jan. 23, 1981:7.
January 17, 1981
The March Montessori School’s annual fundraising dance, the "Hound Dog Hop II," was held. Kanata Standard, Dec. 12, 1980:3.
January 20, 1981
Bob Tennant of MacDonald Homes described to Council the features of a class of energy-saving homes that the company was building in the McCurdy neighbourhood of Katimavik. Kanata Standard, Jan. 23, 1981:1.
January 21, 1981
Joyce Phin, director of the Montessori school, explained the Montessori math program to parents. Kanata Standard, Feb. 6, 1981:12.
January 23, 1981
Constable Peter Leclair confirmed that Kanata’s Neighbourhood Watch Program had made a considerable difference in the number of break-ins and thefts in the area. Kanata Standard, Jan. 23, 1981:1.
January 23, 1981
William Casley, 19, of Kanata, was honoured by the OPP for saving the driver of a burning car in August 1979. The driver, it had turned out, had been a friend of William’s from Earl of March. Kanata Standard, Jan. 23, 1981:1.
January 23, 1981
R.J.A. expressed concern in an editorial over the Mayor’s effort to explain the circumstances surrounding the dismissal of Regional Treasurer Jim Perkins. Kanata Standard, Jan. 23, 1981:2.
January 23, 1981
Paul Dick, MP, expressed concern over the termination of AHOP-funded housing, and in the effects it would have on the Kanata region. Kanata Standard, Jan. 23, 1981:2.
January 23, 1981
Dave Western, Chairman of the Education Committee in Bridlewood, resigned. Kanata Standard, Jan. 23, 1981:3.
January 23, 1981
Sheila McKee made a plea to Kanata residents to donate "anything in any condition" to the sister of Mike McLean, Kanata resident, her husband, and their 7-month-old baby. The family’s house south-west of Kanata was completely destroyed by fire. Kanata Standard, Jan. 23, 1981:5.
January 23, 1981
Mayor Marianne Wilkinson explained in her Commentary the circumstances surrounding the dismissal of Regional Treasurer Jim Perkins. Kanata Standard, Jan. 23, 1981:8.
January 23, 1981
Rosalie Vigneron reported that the Christmas Red Cross Clinic was a modest success with 173 donors. Kanata Standard, Jan. 23, 1981:11.
January 23, 1981
Kanata Standard Ltd., the new company that was to take over publication of the Kanata Standard was officially registered. The company was jointly owned by the Kanata Beaverbrook Community Association, the Katimavik-Hazeldean Community Association and private citizens. Kanata Standard, Feb. 6, 1981:1.
January 23, 1981
It was announced that the Kanata Fire Department had presented the Canadian Cancer Society’s Branch for the Terry Fox Fund with a cheque for 00. Kanata Standard, Jan. 23, 1981:14.
January 23, 1981
The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Ottawa was reported to have authorized the purchase of land in Kanata for a Roman Catholic Church, which would be located at Eagleson Road and Rothesay Drive. Kanata Standard, Jan. 23, 1981:18.
January 24, 1981
The Kanata Kids Association held a Wintertime Fair at the Katimavik Community Centre. Kanata Standard, Jan. 23, 1981:11.
January 27, 1981
Council was split down the middle trying to resolve a long-standing issue of where the Western Boundary Road should be built. Kanata Standard, Feb. 6, 1981:1.
January 27, 1981
Council approved the purchase of a triple-combination fire truck and ancillary equipment at a total cost of ,901. The truck was to go in the new fire station to be built on Eagleson Road at Rothesay Drive. Kanata Standard, Feb. 6, 1981:5.
January 27, 1981
The Black Tower Restaurant in Kanata was handed a 00 fine in provincial court for selling liquor to minors. Kanata Standard, Feb. 6, 1981:16.
January 28, 1981
A wine and cheese was held at the Citizen building for voice and hearing-impaired children with guest speaker Tina Novelli-Amstead. Kanata Standard, Jan. 23, 1981:14.
February 1, 1981
The Stittsville and District Snowmobile Association held their drag races. Kanata Standard, Jan. 23, 1981:13.
February 2, 1981
The Carleton Board of Education decided to provide a French Immersion Centre for kindergarten to grade 5 in Katimavik. Kanata Standard, Feb. 6, 1981:1.
February 6, 1981
It a was announced that a meeting was held to organize the Bridlewood nursery school opening in the fall. Kanata Standard, Feb. 6, 1981:3.
February 6, 1981
The Kanata Standard wrote that Susan Kunstadt hoped to organize a ladies fitness class at the Bridlewood Community Centre. Kanata Standard, Feb. 6, 1981:3.
February 6, 1981
In Marianne Wilkinson’s Commentary, she noted that Paul Dick and condominium residents met with the Minister in Charge of CMHC, Paul Cosgrove, regarding the end of AHOP housing funding. The mayor noted that the government didn’t seem likely to change its plans. Kanata Standard, Feb. 6, 1981:4.
February 6, 1981
It was announced that Brian Carr of Ryder Truck Rentals appeared before Council to request to establish a truck rental agency at the Kanata Esso station on the corner of the Parkway and Teron Road. Kanata Standard, Feb. 6, 1981:5.
February 6, 1981
The Annual Kanata March Horticultual Society Potluck Supper was held at the home of Bob Shank and his wife. The new executive was announced: President–Arnold By, First Vice-President–Mary Ware, 2nd Vice-President–Isobelle Skinner. Kanata Standard, Feb. 6, 1981:8.
February 6, 1981
It was announced that Molly Wilson was presented with the Service Award Certificate by the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture and Food and the Kanata March Horticultural Society. Kanata Standard, Feb. 6, 1981:8.
February 6, 1981
The Kinsmen Club of West Carleton announced that they had changed their name to the Kinsmen Club of Kanata in order to identify themselves with the new city. Kanata Standard, Feb. 6, 1981:9.
February 6, 1981
Slavia, a new Kanata restaurant, opened in the east end of the Glen Cairn Plaza on Highway 7. Kanata Standard, Feb. 6, 1981:11.
February 6, 1981
The new March Tennis Club executive was announced: President–Ted Exton, Vice-President–Dave Evans, Secretary–Geoff Holland, Treasurer–Helena Kalivoda. Kanata Standard, Feb. 6, 1981:16.
February 6, 1981
It was announced that an Interim Board of Directors was approved for the Kanata Business Association. Kanata Standard, Feb. 6, 1981:17.
February 6-7, 1981
March Kanata Skating Club’s 1981 ice show, "Lights on Broadway," was presented. Kanata Standard, Feb. 6, 1981:18.
February 8, 1981
The March Hockey Association held a skate-a-thon. Kanata Standard, Jan. 23, 1981:13.
February 9-13, 1981
The annual winter carnival was held at Earl of March, that included a Mad Moose Memorial Race and a pancake breakfast. Kanata Standard, Feb. 6, 1981:13.
February 10, 1981
In a Committee-of-the-whole meeting, Ontario Hydro repudiated the agreement reached before Christmas to prune trees on the hydro easements rather than cut them down. Kanata Standard, Feb. 20, 1981:1.
February 11, 1981
A discussion was held regarding the decision to make the new Katimavik school a kindergarten to grade 5 French Immersion programme. A number of participants signed a petition to ask the Board to reconsider its decision. Kanata Standard, Feb. 20, 1981:1.
February 13-14, 1981
The Glen Cairn Figure Skating Club presented its annual ice show, "Frolics ’81." Kanata Standard, Feb. 6, 1981:19.
February 14, 1981
The Beaverbrook Guide and Brownie Valentine Tea was held at the Earl of March cafeteria. Kanata Standard, Feb. 6, 1981:9.
February 14-15, 1981
Sixteen Kanata skiers participated in Courier de Bois category at the 15th Annual Canadian Ski Marathon. Kanata’s winners of this years Bronze Courier de Bois medals were awarded to: Phil Gregory, David Lawrence, Francois Lucas, Marc Lucas, Edward McNamara, and Michael Bowland. Kanata Standard, March 6, 1981:3.
February 17, 1981
The new Bridlewood Community Centre opened. Kanata Standard, Feb. 6, 1981:3.
February 17, 1981
The Earl of March Concert Band played at the official opening of the Bridlewood Community Centre. Kanata Standard, Feb. 20, 1981:5.
February 17, 1981
It was announced that the Torbolton March Town Line would be renamed the Thomas A. Dolan Parkway. Kanata Standard, Feb. 20, 1981:6.
February 18-21, 1981
The Kanata Theatre ran their production of "Boustille and the Just," featuring Chris Robinson, Margaret Jardine, and Jo-Anne Manion. Kanata Standard, Feb. 6, 1981:14.
February 20, 1981
It was reported that Carleton MPP Bob Mitchell and Carleton-Grenville MPP Norm Sterling presented Mayor Marianne Wilkinson with a cheque for 5,000 as part of the province’s contribution to reconstructing the Glen Cairn sewers. Kanata Standard, Feb. 20, 1981:1.
February 20, 1981
It was announced that Kanata City Council had approved a by-law that would set up a parking system for handicapped drivers in the City of Kanata. Kanata Standard, Feb. 20, 1981:2.
February 20, 1981
Mayor Marianne Wilkinson mentioned in her Commentary that a number of people had dumped gasoline and other volatile materials into catch basins in the city. She warned that those basins led directly to local streams and rivers. Kanata Standard, Feb. 20, 1981:2.
February 20, 1981
The committee for a community school in Katimavik presented a letter to the Carleton Board of Education saying that they preferred the idea of a dual school in Katimavik. Hal Hansen of the CBE presented a response to the committee’s concerns. Kanata Standard, Feb. 6, 1981:7.
February 20, 1981
L. Sayers wrote an article for the Kanata Standard regarding the "Fitness for Seniors" programme offered by the Carleton Board of Education and the Kanata Recreation Department. Kanata Standard, Feb. 20, 1981:10.
February 20 – 22, 1981
The Bridlewood Winter Carnival took place, including hockey at the Glen Cairn Arena and a Children’s Activity Day. Kanata Standard, Feb. 20, 1981:3.
February 22, 1981
The Kanata Blazers Major Pewee "AA" team travelled to Brockville for the Brockville Minor Hockey Association Black and Decker Invitational Tournament where they won the "B" side of the double elimination format. Kanata Standard, March 6, 1981:14.
February 24, 1981
In a Committee-of-the-whole meeting, Gerry Lemair, of OC Transpo, outlined changes proposed to the Kanata bus routes, including the extension of the 99 service out to Kanata. Kanata Standard, March 6, 1981:1.
February 24, 1981
The Committee-of-the-whole approved, subject to a number of conditions, the lease of the old library building to the Hazeldean Lions Club. Kanata Standard, March 6, 1981:1.
February 28, 1981
St. Isidore’s Parish held a bazaar to raise money for the new church they were building in Kanata. The slogan of the bazaar was: "buy a pie and pay for a brick." Kanata Standard, March 6, 1981:18.
March 1, 1981
The Kanata Major Atom AA Blazers captured the Cornwall Atom AA Tournament championship with three straight wins. Kanata Standard, March 20, 1981:19.
March 4, 1981
The Kanata Beaverbrook Community Association presented plaques to Ron Andoff and Diane Pilsworth, Beaverbrook’s Man and Woman of the Year. Kanata Standard, March 6, 1981:3.
March 5, 1981
Nancy Landry, trustee for the Carleton Separate School Board and Hal Hansen, trustee for the Carleton School Board told the Bridlewood Community Association that they had no plans to build in the area. Kanata Standard, March 20, 1981:2.
March 5-7, 1981
The Kanata Book Fair was held at Stephen Leacock Public School. Kanata Standard, March 6, 1981:11.
March 6, 1981
The Kanata Loppet 1981 was cancelled because of the deterioration of the ski trails that season. Kanata Standard, March 6, 1981:13.
March 6, 1981
Brenda Stewart wrote an article for the Kanata Standard about Connie Lackner, a Glen Cairn tailor who made women’s custom suits using natural fibre and traditional techniques. Kanata Standard, March 6, 1981:1.
March 6, 1981
Alan Seward’s Council Notes commented on the poor heating and ventilation in the City Hall Chamber. The established cost of repairs to Campeau Corporation, the landlord, was ,227. Kanata Standard, March 6, 1981:2.
March 6, 1981
Darn Perley mentioned in his column that a number of people had spoken to him about the possibility of setting up a community orchestra or band. Kanata Standard, March 6, 1981:2.
March 6, 1981
It was announced that the City of Kanata had received petitions asking that Young Road not be closed off to Highway 7, as planned. Council was of the opinion that the closing was a requirement of the Ministry of Transportation and Communications. Kanata Standard, March 6, 1981:2.
March 6, 1981
A letter was received from the Ontario Humane Society asking for Kanata City Council’s support in opposing a government-proposed change in the law which would permit private zoos of wild animals. Their objection was because of a fear of the spread of rabies and the negative effects on the animals. A motion to look into the matter was passed by Council. Kanata Standard, March 6, 1981:2.
March 6, 1981
Eva James noted in the Bridlewood Pony that Bridlewood’s winter carnival had been "very successful despite the lack of snow." Kanata Standard, March 6, 1981:3.
March 6, 1981
It was reported that Robin McLeish, of Kanata, won the Canadian Downhill Skiing Championships. Kanata Standard, March 6, 1981:4.
March 6, 1981
Ruth Fortune wrote an article in the Kanata Standard regarding the success of Earl of March’s Co-operative Education Programme. The program was founded in 1978 by E.O.M. teachers John Lyon and Gerry Clarke. Kanata Standard, March 6, 1981:6.
March 6, 1981
Mary Cook, author of two books, "Time to Blow Out the Lamp," and "A Collector’s Stories and Recipes," spoke to two grade 6 classes at Stephen Leacock Public School. Kanata Standard, March 6, 1981:6.
March 6, 1981
Bob Mitchell, MPP, Carleton, announced that tenders were being called for the construction of an Ontario Provincial Police detachment building in Kanata, for the Ministry of the Solicitor General. Kanata Standard, March 6, 1981:9.
March 6, 1981
The Kanata Standard announced that Mayor Marianne Wilkinson had signed a proclamation naming March Arthritis Month in Kanata. Kanata Standard, March 6, 1981:10.
March 9, 1981
It was established that the Kanata Little League Baseball and Softball Association would be the only association to administer a ball program in the city of Kanata. For this reason, wrote the Kanata Standard, the March Softball Association was dissolved and all its liabilities and assets were transferred over to the new association. Kanata Standard, March 20, 1981:17.
March 10, 1981
La Leche League of Kanata held a meeting to discuss "The Advantages of Breast Feeding." Kanata Standard, March 6, 1981:10.
March 11, 1981
The western finalist for the annual Carleton Public Speaking Contest was Michael Reid from Bell’s Corners Public School. His subject was "inventions." Kanata Standard, March 20, 1981:4.
March 14, 1981
The Hazeldean District Brownies and Guides held their annual tea, bake sale, and bazaar. March 6, 1981:8.
March 14-15
The Glen Cairn Midget Bobcats, coached by Val Townsend, Norm Brownlee, and Wayne Taylor, won a midget house league tournament in Potsdam, New York. Kanata Standard, April 16, 1981:17.
March 15, 1981
Archbishop A. Plourde recently announced the appointment of Rev. Peter Schonenbach from St. Elizabeth’s Parish in Ottawa as the new Roman Catholic Pastor for Kanata and Stittsville. Kanata Standard, May 15, 1981:26.
March 17, 1981
Mayor Marianne Wilkinson declared April Cancer Month in the City of Kanata after the City was presented with of a bowl of daffodils from the Canadian Cancer Society. Kanata Standard, March 20, 1981:5.
March 17, 1981
An objection by residents of Casgrain Court to the proposed operation of a truck rental business at the Kanata Esso Station on Teron Road was referred to City staff. Kanata Standard, March 20, 1981:5.
March 17, 1981
Professionals located in Eagleson Plaza lodged a request to Kanata City Council for the completion of Kakulu Road. Kanata Standard, March 20, 1981:5.
March 19, 1981
Kanata Seniors’ Happy Companions enjoyed an Activity Day at March Central where they learned how to make cloth flowers and Easter Bunny label pins. Kanata Standard, April 3, 1981:5.
March 20, 1981
Hal Hansen, trustee for the Carleton School Board, announced that the Ontario Public School Men Teachers Federation presented Diamond Jubilee Awards to four people, including former CBE trustee Eric Hicks. Kanata Standard, March 20, 1981:6.
March 20, 1981
It was announced that the Regional Planning Committee decided to accept an amendment to the Regional Plan requested by Campeau Corporation regarding the development of the Lakeside area surrounding the Beaver Pond. Kanata Standard, March 20, 1981:1.
March 20, 1981
It was reported that the Beaverbrook pool may not open in 1981 because of cracks in the side and bottom of the main pool. March 20, 1981:1.
March 20, 1981
Don Kennedy of the land development division announced that despite the decision of the Campeau Corporation to stop building residences in the Ottawa area, building would proceed in the Marchwood-Lakeside development. March 20, 1981:1.
March 20, 1981
Dan Perley announced that the new March Rural Association met to elect five new officers: President–Art Veck, Secretary–Leanne Dwyer, and Treasurer–Moira Dunbar. Kanata Standard, March 20, 1981:12.
March 20, 1981
A volunteer task force working with the Kanata Beaverbrook Community Association announced that it was considering the benefits of conversion to natural gas for home heating. Kanata Standard, March 20, 1981:14.
March 20, 1981
It was announced that the Glen Cairn Figure Skating Club placed third in club standings at the 1981 Ottawa-Hull Interskate Competition held in the Bob Guertin Arena in Hull. The March Kanata Skating Club placed tenth. Kanata Standard, March 20, 1981:20,21.
March 20, 1981
The Kanata Standard announced that the boundaries for the new Roman Catholic Church to be build in Kanata had been decided upon by the archbishop and members of the metropolitan chapter. The new parish would include Amberwood, Bridlewood, Glen Cairn, Fringewood Village, Hazeldean North, Katimavik, and Stittsville. Kanata Standard, March 20, 1981:22.
March 21, 1981
The Minor Hockey Association held a fundraising dinner dance at the Bridlewood Community Centre. Kanata Standard, March 6, 1981:3.
March 21, 1981
The Bridlewood Community Association held a dance to celebrate spring and St. Patrick’s Day that was attended by 113 people. Kanata Standard, April 3, 1981:3.
March 23, 1981
The Kanata Kids Association sponsored a bowling excursion. Kanata Standard, March 20, 1981.
March 25-27, 1981
The Glen Cairn Minor Peewee Hockey team took home the trophy from a tournament in Orleans. Kanata Standard, April 16, 1981:16.
March 26-29, 1981
The Kanata Tyke Blazers won the third Annual Novice Hockey Tournament in Dollard des Ormeaux, Quebec. Kanata Standard, April 16, 1981:14.
April 1, 1981
The inaugural meeting of the Kanata Business Association was held at the Mlacak Centre. The Association was established to "provide local businesses with the method to discuss concerns, problems, and interests, and bring them to the attention of appropriate groups." Kanata Standard, April 3, 1981:6.
April 1, 1981
The first annual meeting of the Kanata Business Association was held and a board was elected: President–Clarence Maheral, Vice-President–Tony Jarvis, Secretary-Treasurer–Andy Robinson. Kanata Standard, April 16, 1981:1,4.
April 3, 1981
Gordon Marwood noted in the Kanata Standard that spring had brought forward both the construction of the new Kanata police station and the Katimavik Elementary School. Kanata Standard, April 3, 1981:1.
April 3, 1981
Douglas Wiseman, Minister of Government Services, announced that a ,185 contract had been awarded to M. J. Lafortune Construction Ltd. of Ottawa for the construction of the Ontario Provincial Police detachment building in Kanata. Kanata Standard, April 3, 1981:3.
April 3, 1981
Mayor Marianne Wilkinson mentioned in her Commentary that the City of Kanata had received an Interim Report on the study of the City’s recreation facilities. Kanata Standard, April 3, 1981:6.
April 4, 1981
St. Isidore’s Parish sponsored a Pub Night at the Parish Hall, South March, featuring Dominic D’Arcy. Kanata Standard, April 3, 1981:10.
April 4-5, 1981
The Kanata Theatre presented "The Silver Whistle" by Patrick B Mace, directed by Eileen Morand. Kanata Standard, March 6, 1981:17.
April 5, 1981
Bill Sawchuck gave a talk about Telidon, "one of the newest communication devices," at the Mlacak Centre. Kanata Standard, April 3, 1981:7.
April 5, 1981
A ceremony was held at Ridgemont High School for the Girl Guides of Canada, during which Canada Cords were presented to: Stacey McKay, Alicia Bennett, and Carol McLean. Kanata Standard, April 16, 1981:11.
April 5 – 11, 1981
Proclaimed Air Cadet Week in the City of Kanata by Mayor Marianne Wilkinson. Kanata Standard, April 3, 1981:13.
April 6, 1981
The new executive was elected for the Kanata Ladies Bowling League: President–Ann Harris, Vice-President–Margo MacLaurin, Secretary–Faye Larwill, Treasurer–Shelley O’Dell. Kanata Standard, April 16, 1981:16.
April 8, 1981
Akela John van Abbema, of the Panther Club Pack, arranged for the Ontario Provincial Police to bring their Dog Patrol team to Roger St. Denis school. Kanata Standard, April 3, 1981:11.
April 8, 1981
The operating budget of the City of Kanata for 1981 was presented to the public. Kanata Standard, April 16, 1981:4.
April 8, 1981
The Carleton Board of Education and the Teachers’ Federation of Carleton attended a signing ceremony where they ratified a new Collective Agreement for elementary school teachers. Kanata Standard, April 16, 1981:8.
April 8, 1981
The new executive for the March Kanata Skating Club was elected: President and Pro Liaison–Keith Hooey, Vice-President and Sectionals Chairman–Donna Lund, Secretary–Diana Callahan, Treasurer–Paul Richardson. Kanata Standard, May 15, 1981:20.
April 9, 1981
The new executive for the Glen Cairn Figure Skating Club was elected: President–Joan Dowling, Vice-President–Donna Sparling, Treasurer–Rheal Dorie, Secretary–Marilyn Holden. Kanata Standard, May 15, 1981:20.
April 9, 1981
The first meeting was held of those interested in forming a Kanata band. Kanata Standard, April 16, 1981:5.
April 11, 1981
The Kanata Scouting Troop held their 3rd Annual Scout Bike Exchange at Earl of March High School. Kanata Standard, April 3, 1981:11.
April 11, 1981
The Kanata Kids Association held its election: President–Alex Munter (acclamation), Vice-President–Laura Kyswaty, Secretary-Treasurer–Helen Reeve, Kids Rep–Richard Munter. Kanata Standard, April 16, 1981:15.
April 14, 1981
The Family Enrichment Association invited parents and children between the ages of 8 and 12 to attend a film and discussion period dealing with peer pressure. Kanata Standard, April 3, 1981:7.
April 16, 1981
Norpak Ltd., a fast-growing manufacturer of electronic display processing equipment, that was involved in the heralded Telidon programme, was to be one of the first occupants of the South Business Park in Katimavik. Kanata Standard, April 16, 1981:1.
April 16, 1981
Mayor Marianne Wilkinson mentioned in her Commentary that there had been two serious incidents with B-B-Guns and Air Guns — one where a car window was shattered by a pellet and a second where two children were hit by air pellets in the back. The mayor’s comments served as a reminder that Kanata by-laws prohibit the discharge of any firearm within the entire southern half of the city. Kanata Standard, April 16, 1981:2.
April 16, 1981
A.Y. Jackson Secondary School in Kanata announced that it would introduce a semester system in the fall as well as an adult day programme. Kanata Standard, April 16, 1981:13.
April 16, 1981
The Kanata Standard noted that Stephen Dyment, a grade 8 student at Stephen Leacock Public School, had represented the Kanata area in the semi-finals of the Carleton Board of Education’s English Public Speaking Contest in March. Kanata Standard, April 16, 1981:7.
April 16, 1981
The Kanata Standard announced that Matthew Beddoes, a grade 7 student at Stephen Leacock School was successful in an audition held at the National Arts Centre for parts in the opera "Midsummer Nights Dream" by Benjamin Britten. Kanata Standard, April 16, 1981:11.
April 21, 1981
The First Unitarian Church held an art show featuring the works of Ohyllis Ross, oils, and Roy Cottee, water colours. Kanata Standard, April 16, 1981:18.
April 21, 1981
A deputation of 15 residents, led by Glen Cairn Ball Association Graham Ball and Scheduling Manager Tom Flood, presented a case to Kanata City Council against the proposed maintenance costs charged by Council. Kanata Standard, May 1, 1981:2.
April 21, 1981
A deputation of Casgrain Court residents, led by Jerry Bellamo, presented residents’ concerns over noise that might result from the changed use of the Kanata Esso site. The Planning Board had previously passed a motion to allow Kanata Esso to add a truck rental area to its existing site. Kanata Standard, May 1, 1981:2.
April 23, 1981
In honour of April being Cancer Month, the Canadian Cancer Society offered two free Breast Self-Examination Clinics in the Ottawa area. Kanata Standard, April 16, 1981:19.
April 25, 1981
The March Montessori School held its third annual baby clothing and equipment sale in the Beaverbrook Mall. Kanata Standard, April 16, 1981:12.
April 25, 1981
A Spring Dance was held in the foyer of Earl of March Secondary School, sponsored by the school’s music department. Kanata Standard, April 3, 1981:11.
April 25, 1981
The Kanata Ladies’ Bowling League held their Annual Banquet and Presentations at the RA Centre. The top honour of League Winner was achieved by Team No 11: Captain Lois Smit, Janet MacLennan, Anne Schryburt, and Beth Woodburn. Kanata Standard, May 1, 1981:15.
April 25, 1981
The 2nd Annual Toothbrush Swap was held at Hazeldean Mall. Kanata Standard, May 15, 1981:13.
April 28, 1981
The Regional Municipality of Ottawa-Carleton’s Planning Board heard from residents regarding Campeau Corporation’s application to amend the Regional Official Plan in the Lakeside area of Kanata. Kanata Standard, May 1, 1981:1.
April 28, 1981
In a Committee-of-the-whole meeting, the Kanata City Council heard from Sandra Reain concerning the desire of residents for an indoor pool in Kanata. Kanata Standard, May 1, 1981:1.
April 28, 1981
Council discussed the renovation of the Old Town Hall in South March. Following a request by the South March Women’s Institute in 1980, Council had passed a resolution to determine the soundness of the structure. Having found the structure sound, Mayor Marianne Wilkinson pointed out the possibility of having it designated as a Heritage building. Kanata Standard, May 1, 1981:6.
April 28, 1981
There was discussion at the Kanata City Council meeting about an application understood to be in the works for a four-theatre cinema with a total seating capacity of 600 seats. Kanata Standard, May 1, 1981:4.
Florence Henderson
Image by Eva Rinaldi Celebrity Photographer
Florence Henderson from Brady Bunch fame in Sydney for book promotion…
Florence just loves her cook books, as well as tomatoes, and her family has a long and successful history in the tomato growing business we learned while chatting with the famous actor at King’s Cross – Darlinghurst based ‘Concrete Blonde’ Restaurant.
She has taken quite a liking to NSW, Australia, which also compliments her existing and upcoming media and promotional campaigns.
Be sure to look out for her fabulous cookbooks (as well as ‘The Brady Bunch’ reruns on Foxtel).
Good night all.
Media…
Mrs Brady heads Down Under for her love of tomatoes…
Pop culture icon Florence Henderson, AKA Mrs Brady from classic hit TV series ‘The Brady Bunch’, is heading Down Under. Florence will visit Sydney from 25 June to 28 June to share her short-cut kitchen tips. Besides wearing the title of ‘America’s Favourite Mom’, Florence hosted a cooking variety show that saw her working with some of the world’s best chefs and has two cookbooks to her name.
Florence is coming to Australia thanks to the newly launched Ardmona Duo, a flavoursome mix of vine ripened Australian tomatoes and tomato paste in one easy to open can; the perfect short cut for cooks who want fabulous food on the table, quick smart.
Florence is the youngest of ten children as well as having four children of her own. “I’m not a professional cook, just someone who loves good food. I especially love tomatoes and their versatility. When I heard Ardmona was launching the Duo range where delicious vine ripened Australian tomatoes are combined with tomato paste, I thought, ‘what a great short cut creation’. One of my cook books was actually called Short Cut Cooking,” said Ms Henderson.
To coincide with Florence’s visit to Australia and the launch of Ardmona Duo, a Facebook App will be launched where Australians can sift through a plethora of essential timesaving short cut cooking tips. The Ardmona Book of Better Ways contains helpful tips such as how to stop rice from sticking, how to slice mushrooms quickly and evenly, how to effortlessly grate cheese with less mess, how to boil eggs without them cracking and how to easily open jars with pesky lids.
“When it comes to food, I’m a big believer in supporting local industry. Why buy imported products if what you’re growing locally is actually superior tasting? “I’ve tasted the Australian grown Ardmona tomatoes and compared them to Italian canned tomatoes and found the Ardmona product to be full of flavour. There is definitely something to be said about the sunshine vine ripened tomatoes of Down Under; they really know how to pack a flavoursome punch!”
Ardmona canned tomatoes are sourced from Victoria’s ‘fruit bowl’, the Goulburn Valley and Southern NSW. Ardmona exclusively uses tomatoes grown and manufactured in Australia. Ardmona tomatoes aren’t picked green and later ripened before being canned. These tomatoes are vine ripened and picked at their peak maturity to ensure the succulent tomato flavours are captured. Within 24 hours of harvesting, the tomatoes are cooked and sealed to preserve the true vine ripened rick flavour.
Ardmona Duo with the added richness of paste comes in straight finely chopped tomatoes with paste or;
•Finely Chopped Tomatoes with Paste and Basil & Garlic
•Finely Chopped Tomatoes with Paste and Herbs
•Finely Chopped Tomatoes with Paste and Roasted Capsicum
•Finely Chopped Tomatoes with Paste and Onion & Garlic
•Finely Chopped Tomatoes with Paste and Bolognese
ABOUT ARDMONA
Ardmona has been part of Aussie meals for generations… 90 years to be exact. From its beginnings as the Ardmona Fruits Products Cooperative Company Limited established in 1921, Ardmona has grown to deliver a range of trusted products, and is today the leading brand in the Canned Tomatoes category.
Websites
Florence Henderson official website
www.flohome.com
Concrete Blonde
www.concreteblonderestaurant.com.au
AC Agency
www.acagency.com.au
Eva Rinaldi Photography
www.evarinaldi.com
Eva Rinaldi Photography Flickr
www.flickr.com/evarinaldiphotography
Music News Australia
www.musicnewsaustralia.com
263. CF3
Some cool cook books images:
263. CF3
Image by Jim Surkamp
VIDEO: The Bower and its Families Part 3
www.youtube.com/watch?v=GE_ou8Ylyc8
POST: The Bower and its Families Part 3 (beginning to 3.23 in the video)
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The Bower and its Families Part 2 (with bibliography)
Made possible with the generous, community-minded support of American Public University System (apus.edu). This video and all videos in this channel as well as the million words of posts at the corresponding source, civilwarscholars.com – are intended to encourage fact-based discussion to heighten better understanding of the foundational events of our country. Sentiments included in these productions, even if commendable, do not in any way reflect the 21st century policies of the University.
This is the third of about four videos.
I am working with Charles Fox, whose family descended from the remarkable John H. Fox, the owner/operator of three different farms and community leader, revered upon his death and who was born enslaved at the Bower.
I was absorbed in the question of how could and why did those enslaved sang,laughed and danced and even stayed up without sleeping and still working long days in the fields. And yes it is true as a consistent fact of life in Virginia in the early 19th century. I found the same observations in five different diaries in this immediate region. And I came to realize a great truth in this fact which will be explored in the third video. We have been served terribly with descriptions of enslaved peersons as being "child-like and pathetic" ignoring the obvious reality that they received their almost superhuman strength coming from their faith and African musical tradition. That African Americans routinely become the best in any athletic field they enter and the worldwide influence of their musical talents – gospel blues swing jazz motown etc. just underscore these earlier daily practices so long ago.
Glamorous and famous for its visitors (Washington Irving, Robert E. Lee, Jeb Stuart’s entire staff lived there for a month), the pre-Civil War owners practiced people-owning on a large scale – usually about sixty enslaved persons who kept up production there from day to day. A close reading of daily accounts reveals just how much the deepest, knowledge of hunting, cooking, horses etc resided in the most experienced persons of color.
It became famous as the place John Pendleton Kennedy, a relative from Baltimore who also supported Edgar Allan Poe, based his widely read book: "Swallow Barn: A Sojourn in the Old Dominion," that was published in 1832 and 1850.
It was a divided family, with regard to the Civil War, with author Kennedy opposing secession, the Dandridges at the Bower strongly supporting, or as Philip Kennedy put it – Adam Dandridge ate a strong "allowance of the insane root" to quote from Macbeth.
It might include a tragic love story. When John Fox was born in 1845 Adam Stephen Dandridge II was the only adult white male at The Bower.
It circles around Adam Dandridge II and Charles Fox’s great great grandmother "Mary" who was killed at the Bower.
It also follows the incredibly impressive John Fox, one of Mary’s five surviving children and culminates with Charles Fox’s powerfully impressive, of-the-earth, wisdom-dispensing grandfather, Charles Washington Fox.
We’ll leave it at that.
Care is taken to stay consistent with all information in official records (death certificates, Census, marriage records, deeds, and wills) in addition to the Fox family oral tradition, first transmitted by John Fox, with his eye-witness knowledge.
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00: – Michael Praetorius: Dances from Terpsichore, Courante
Voices of Music over images 1-7 to :54 – youtube.com
Michael Praetorius: Dances from Terpsichore, Courante
Voices of Music
Hanneke van Proosdij and David Tayler
Directors
Musicians (left to right)
Carla Moore, Gabrielle Wunsch, Lisa Grodin and
Maxine Nemerovski, baroque violins
Maria Caswell, baroque viola
Peter Maund, riqq
Elisabeth Reed and Tanya Tomkins, baroque cellos
Farley Pearce, violone
Hanneke van Proosdij, harpsichord
David Tayler, archlute & percussion
youtube.com
www.youtube.com/watch?v=yoGvKFSvs0o
1.
Two Women with Head-Ties, Jamaica, 1808-1815 – loc.gov
web4.encyclopediavirginia.org
web4.encyclopediavirginia.org/slave_images/Slavery/detail…
2.
Robert Greenhow Jr., ca. 1808, Charles B. J. Févret de Saint-Mémin (French, 1770 – 1852), pastel and crayon on toned paper, 18 3/8 x 14 in. (47.9 x 35.6 cm.). Gift of Mrs. William R. Scott 98.3.3/3
vmfa.museum
www.vmfa.museum/tours/audio-tours/web-tour-friend-heart-c…
3
Man Smoking a Pipe, ca. 1800-1825
slaveryimages.org
www.slaveryimages.org/s/slaveryimages/item/1480/mirador
4.
Mrs. Robert Greenhow Sr. (Mary Ann Willis), ca. 1808, Charles B. J. Févret de Saint-Mémin, (French, 1770 – 1852), pastel and crayon on toned paper, 19 5/8 x 13 7/8 in. (49.8 x 35.3 cm. ). Gift of Mrs. William R. Scott 98.3.1/3
vmfa.museum
www.vmfa.museum/tours/audio-tours/web-tour-friend-heart-c…
5. Tangerian Girl by José Tapiro y Baro – 1891. Dahesh Museum of Art in New York
arthistoryproject.com
arthistoryproject.com/artists/jose-tapiro-y-baro/tangeria…
6.
Robert Greenhow Sr., ca. 1808, Charles B. J. Févret de Saint-Mémin (French, 1770 – 1852), pastel and crayon on toned paper, 19 5/8 x 14 1/8 in. (48.8 x 35.9 cm.). Gift of Mrs. William R. Scott 98.3.2/3
vmfa.museum
www.vmfa.museum/tours/audio-tours/web-tour-friend-heart-c…
7.
Absalam by SANTIAGO ARCOS Y MEGALDE
bonhams.com
www.bonhams.com/auctions/23917/lot/10/?category=results
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8. Title
9. Bower aerial
Google Maps
google.com/maps
www.google.com/maps/@39.3664719,-77.9554242,1762m/data=!3…
10. rear exit The Bower taken by Edwin Fitzpatrick
Jefferson County Historical Society (1991). "Between the Shenandoah & the Potomac."
Charles Town, WV: self-published. p. ADD
11. brief moving dresses no sound – Gone With the Wind (fair use)
12. Portrait of Adam Stephen Dandridge, Sr. (1782-1821) by Charles Peale Polk 1799-1800
emuseum.history.org
emuseum.history.org/objects/28061/portrait-of-adam-stephe…
13. same as 11
14. Portrait of Sarah Pendleton Dandridge (Mrs. Adam Stephen Dandridge, Sr.)(1785-1855)
by James W. Macoughtry, Jr. 1831
emuseum.history.org
emuseum.history.org/objects/42669/portrait-of-sarah-pendl…
15. The first quadrille at Almack’s From Recollections of Captain Gronow (1850)
pinterest.com
www.pinterest.com/pin/363313894910535906/
16. The "Trenis" Quadrille, Plate 19 from "Le Bon Genre," 1805
pinterest.com
www.pinterest.com/pin/427349452145394118/
17. swirling dress
Gone With tHe Wind fair use and
18. Figure 11. A German Cotillion, Vienna, c.1825. From Scenes du Bal by Charles Henry.
regencydances.org
www.regencydances.org/paper011.php
19. Object: Le baiser deviné; Series: Le Bon Genre – 1812
britishmuseum.org
www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1866-0407-902
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1:41 – Summer Nights from Desert Winds produced by Shana Aisenberg over images 20-26 to 3:23
2:22 – FX carriages, hooves, horses over images 24-26 to 3:23
2:24 – FX Owl frogs autumn over images 24-25 to 3:01
20. Spider’s web in the sun
21. James Kirke Paulding
commons.wikimedia.org
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:JKPaulding.jpg
& history.navy.mil
www.history.navy.mil/photos/pers-us/uspers-p/jk-pauld.htm
Author Government of the United States
22. Joseph of Egypt
frchriszugger.com
frchriszugger.com/2018/03/21/joseph-of-egypt-and-christ/
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J. K. Paulding: I once knew a worthy old lady, who never saw or heard any thing in this World that did not put her in mind of Joseph in Egypt. Whenever any thing was told her, no matter what,
23. A pretty girl and an old woman both taking snuff. Coloured stipple engraving after L. Boilly, ca. 1827.
wellcomecollection.org INCLUDE Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
wellcomecollection.org/works/q6j67tvc
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she would take a pinch of snuff, and exclaim with a devotional air, “Ah! that puts me in mind of Joseph in Egypt.” Nobody could tell why; but so it was
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Paulding, James Kirke. (1835). "Letters from the South By a Northern man."
New-York : Harper & brothers
p. 50 Vol 2
babel.hathitrust.org
babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uiug.30112046404643&vi…
24. TITLE James Kirke Paulding in 1816, while heading north in the Shenandoah Valley
to Martinsburg:
25. Shenandoah Valley by William Louis Sonntag, Sr. 1859–1860Virginia Historical Society
commons.wikimedia.org
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Shenandoah_Valley_William…
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In traversing this mountain region, one of the first things that struck me was the solemn, severe silence which prevailed every where, and only broken at distant intervals, by the note of the cock of the woods; the chirping of a ground squirrel; the crash of a falling tree, or the long echoes of the fowler’s gun, which render the silence, thus broken in upon for a moment, still more striking.
p. 116 vol 1
babel.hathitrust.org
babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uiug.30112046404387&vi…
26. Drawing by Garth Williams, 1953 version of Little House in the Big Woods, pg. 123
silverhomestead.com
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In many places the only traces of human agency are the incisions of the sugar maple, and the little troughs at the foot of the tree turned upside down, to wait the flowing of the sap in the spring.
Paulding Vol. 1 p. 118
babel.hathitrust.org
babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uiug.30112046404387&vi…
CF 3 3.23 5.32
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3:23 – FX hum of voices over images 27-30 to 5:32
*
Begins
Paulding, James Kirke. (1817) "Letters from the South, written during an excursion in the summer of 1816." New York, Published by James Eastburn & co.
pp. 117-131
p. 121
archive.org/details/lettersfromsouth01paul/page/121/mode/1up
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27. James Kirke Paulding
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www.history.navy.mil/photos/pers-us/uspers-p/jk-pauld.htm
Author Government of the United States
At one of the taverns along the road, we were set down in the same room with a man, who was
28.
Eugène Pelletan by Nadar 1855–59 – Purchase, The Howard Gilman Foundation Gift and Rogers Fund,
metmuseum.org/
www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/266480
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an ill-looking, hard-featured, pock-marked, fellow. He was going, it seems, to Richmond.
WARNING DISTURBING ACCOUNTS OF EXTREME CRUELTY
All along the road, I made it his business to inquire where lived a man who might perhaps be tempted to sell him his slaves and when I got some half a dozen of them, I tied their hands behind their backs, and drove them three or four hundred miles, or more, bare-headed, and half naked, I gave out that they were runaway slaves I was carrying home to their masters.
On one occasion a black woman exposed this fallacy, and told the story of her being kidnapped; and (123) when I got her into a wood out of hearing, I beat her, till her back was white."
I married all the men and women I bought, because they would sell better for being man and wife !
"For many is the time I have separated wives from husbands, and husbands from wives, and parents from children ;
but then I made them amends by marrying them again as soon as I had a chance
I made one bad purchase, though," I bought a young mulatto girl, a lovely creature, — a great bargain. She had been the favourite of her master, who had lately married.
The difficulty was, to get her to go ; for she loved her master.
However, I swore most bitterly I was only going to take her to her mother at , and she went with me; though she seemed to doubt me very much.
But when she discovered at last that we were out of the State, I thought she would go mad ; and, in fact, the next night, drowned herself in the river close by.
I lost a good five hundred dollars by this foolish trick,
p. 121
archive.org/details/lettersfromsouth01paul/page/121/mode/1up
29. James Kirke Paulding
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commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:JKPaulding.jpg
& history.navy.mil
www.history.navy.mil/photos/pers-us/uspers-p/jk-pauld.htm
Author Government of the United States
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page 120
it is seldom we see the ties of kindred or of conjugal affection, stronger than in the poor negro. He will travel twelre, fifteen, or twenty miles, to see his wife and children, after his daily
30. by Miguel Ângelo Lupi 1879. This is a couple of former slaves that accompained a portuguese aristocrat, Serpa Pinto, in his voyages through Africa
pinterest.es
www.pinterest.es/pin/443886107023349726/
page 121
labour is over, and return in the morning to his labour again. If he obtains his liberty, he will often devote the first years of his liberty to buying their freedom; — thus setting an example of conjugal and parental affection, which the white man may indeed admire ; but, it is feared, would seldom imitate.
pp. 120-121
archive.org
archive.org/details/lettersfromsouth01paul/page/120/mode/1up
Paulding, James Kirke. (1817) "Letters from the South, written during an excursion in the summer of 1816." New York, Published by James Eastburn & co.
pp. 117-131
CF3 5.32 7.18
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Gourd Banjo and Hambone on a Mississippi Porch
Markus James – gourd banjo
Calvin Jackson – hambone
From the album "Head For The Hills" by Markus James;
As heard in the HBO film "The Immortal Life Of Henrietta Lacks" featuring Oprah Winfrey
www.facebook.com/markusjamesm...
youtube.com
www.youtube.com/watch?v=gTKE3IaVVmA
Images 31, 32 and 34-38
The Old Plantation attributed to John Rose
Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Museum, Williamsburg, Virginia
wikipedia.org
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Old_Plantation#/media/File:Slav…
33. Bower Farm Leetown WV – Jim Surkamp
39. The Highest Bidder by Harry Roseland
encore-editions.com
www.encore-editions.com/to-the-highest-bidder-by-harry-ro…
40.The Power of Music by Wm Sidney Mount – 1847
theimaginativeconservative.org
theimaginativeconservative.org/2018/11/images-america-wil…
41. "Aunt Lucy" Hermitage – 1915
Essie Collins Matthews, Aunt Phebe, Uncle Tom and Others: Character Studies Among the Old Slaves of the South, Fifty Years After: illustrated from photographs made by the author in the cabins and on the plantations (Columbus, Ohio, 1915)
slaveryimages.org
slaveryimages.org/s/slaveryimages/item/1553
Aunt Phebe, Uncle Tom and Other, p. 104
42. Man with axe
Kennedy, John Pendleton, (1856) "Swallow barn, or, A sojourn in the Old Dominion." New York, G.P. Putnam & Company.
p. 404
hathitrust.org
babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=nyp.33433076089170&vie…
43a. Head of a Black man by Eastman Johnson – 1868
wikiart.org
www.wikiart.org/en/eastman-johnson/head-of-a-black-man-1868
43b. Frank Wagoner by D.H. Strother Harpers Feb. 1855, p. 300
babel.hathitrust.org
babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015056090080&vie…
44. The Banjo Player by Wm Sidney Mount – 1856
theimaginativeconservative.org
theimaginativeconservative.org/2018/11/images-america-wil…
45. Swallow Barn man with pipe
Kennedy, John Pendleton, (1856) "Swallow barn, or, A sojourn in the Old Dominion." New York, G.P. Putnam & Company.
p. 448
hathitrust.org
babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=nyp.33433076089170&vie…
46a. Bill Napper by D.H. Strother 1845
P.95.30.391pg13
West Virginia and Regional History Center David Hunter Strother, Artist, Artwork and Papers Series 6. Artworks, 1833-1887, undated
archives.lib.wvu.edu
archives.lib.wvu.edu/repositories/2/archival_objects/105044
46b. detail The Power of Music by Wm Sidney Mount – 1847
theimaginativeconservative.org
theimaginativeconservative.org/2018/11/images-america-wil…
47a. “A Swedish Gentleman instructing a Negro Prince” by Carl Fredric von Breda – 1789
Karolina Kristensson, © Nordiska museet
digitaltmuseum.se
digitaltmuseum.se/011023459953/tavla
47b. cook by D.H. Strother Harpers Jan. 1856 p. 177
babel.hathitrust.org
babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015056090064&vie…
47c. Antique Martinique Merchant
www.picclick.com
pinterest.com
www.pinterest.com/pin/463589355373107433/
48. Shell Mound Station by D.H. Strother
P.95.30.393pg4a
West Virginia and Regional History Center David Hunter Strother, Artist, Artwork and Papers Series 6. Artworks, 1833-1887, undated
archives.lib.wvu.edu
archives.lib.wvu.edu/repositories/2/archival_objects/105044
SOURCES of given persons: names in this chapter:
First Section
Pinco – from account book of A.S.Dandridge II – Jefferson County Museum & The Mighty Myth of the Happy Plantation at civilwarscholars.com;
Carey (Swallow Barn);
Cate, Eliza, Serina, Anne and Mary (wills of Adam Stephen and his daughter, Anne Stephen Hunter),
Second Section – Source of persons’ names in the montage
Walter Dean Myers, who was born in Martinsburg, descended from the Dennis family who worked at The Bower and has become a respected author, wrote this in his book, “Now Is Your Time”:
“In 1849, Adam Stephen Dandridge II lived at The Bower and ran the plantation. His brother Philip lived nearby. When Philip needed to secure his loans, he put up part of his inheritance, which consisted of part of the Bower lands and his Africans:
‘The following slaves, the property of the said Philip P. Dandridge, now in his possession in Jefferson County, or in the custody of Dr. Gellot Hollingsworth and Samuel Hollingsworth, in the State of Louisiana, together with the increase (children) of said slaves – vis; Cato, Henny, George, Robert, John, Daniel, James, Simon, Peter, Tina, Caroline, Leah, Mary Ann and her children, Rachael, Ann, Louisa & children, Frances, Margaret, Patty, including all of the slaves of the said Philip P. Dandridge, whether named or not. . . to secure a debt of said P. P. Dandridge’ – (Myers, P. 99)
The Mighty Myth of the Happy Plantation
civilwarscholars.com/2011/06/sample-post/
interview 2002 with Jim Surkamp
civilwarscholars.com
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7:20 – Shana Aisenberg on banjo with accompaniment over images 49
49. "Mary" semblance
David Hunter Strother, Sketches of “contrabands,” enslaved African Americans who crossed into the federal lines, 1862. Courtesy of the Library of Virginia.
southernspaces.org
southernspaces.org/2010/retelling-virginias-migration-his…
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I got this from Uncle Dewey because he spoke for black history month down here. He said that somebody told the mistress there was four little foxes down there looking out the window: She got the market basket and went down ‘thought he was talking about animals.
And they were these Negro children. So of course she told the master. So he said: ‘Well just bring ‘em on up here and he put ‘em in the kitchen. And he said they would take a tub, like a foot tub, put bread in it, and milk, pour it in there and they ate with the cats and dogs under the kitchen table.
But by being at the big house, they learned to talk. They learned to read. They just learned things. When you’re ’round, you pick up – he was not back there in the field somewhere.
So, one of ’em became a preacher. One of ’em became a cook. And that one I think – we would say – like a butler. He was ssomething like – if you saw "Roots" – he was like Chicken John. And as I said, the girl, they lost trace of her. Steve went to Ohio. So they lost trace of him. And farmer John, see, he bought the oxen and he cut lumber. He was known as a lumber jacket.
And if you would read the history of St. Paul’s Church, it was John Fox – that’s my grandfather – It was George Johnson – grandfather on my mother’s side, a Carter and I think three other men – bought that piece of land where that church is. They paid for it. An’ lot of the lumber in the church John Fox gave.
50. Bertha Jones, Jefferson Co. NAACP Executive Committee
jeffcomuseumwv.pastperfectonline.com
jeffcomuseumwv.pastperfectonline.com/archive/75847923-F4F…
51. Sunday Morning in Virginia by Winslow Homer – 1877 Cincinnati Art Museum
commons.wikimedia.org
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Winslow_Homer_-_Sunday_Mo…
52a. A patent of nobility by D. H. Strother Harpers July, 1866 p. 139
babel.hathitrust.org
babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015056090353&vie…
52b
Benjamin Fox
findagrave.com
www.findagrave.com/memorial/190534275/benjamin-f-fox
53.
Humphery black child on horseback by D.H. Strother
P.95.30.390pg13
West Virginia and Regional History Center David Hunter Strother, Artist, Artwork and Papers Series 6. Artworks, 1833-1887, undated
archives.lib.wvu.edu
archives.lib.wvu.edu/repositories/2/archival_objects/105044
54.
Mary Kindling the fire by D.H. Strother Harpers Aug, 1855 p. 295
babel.hathitrust.org
babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015056090072&vie…
55.
Steve Aunt Winnie by D.F. Strother Harper’s Aug, 1856 p. 310
babel.hathitrust.org
babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015056089801&vie…
56. Bower field and horse by Jim Surkamp
57a.
(John Fox semblance) African American boy sitting by D. H. Strother – 1864
P.95.30.345
West Virginia and Regional History Center David Hunter Strother, Artist, Artwork and Papers Series 6. Artworks, 1833-1887, undated
archives.lib.wvu.edu
archives.lib.wvu.edu/repositories/2/archival_objects/105044
57b. John Henry Fox – courtesy Charles Fox
58
St. Paul’s Baptist Church
Kearneysville, WV
google.com/maps
www.google.com/maps/uv?pb=!1s0x89c9ffadeda3091b%3A0x5c698…
later
"Baltimore" tea et by D.H. Strother 1860
P.95.30.27
West Virginia and Regional History Center David Hunter Strother, Artist, Artwork and Papers Series 6. Artworks, 1833-1887, undated
archives.lib.wvu.edu
archives.lib.wvu.edu/repositories/2/archival_objects/105044
The Wood-pile by D.F. Strother Harper’s Aug, 1856 p. 316
babel.hathitrust.org
babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015056089801&vie…
for litle potatoe segment
CF 3 9:48 12.14
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9:48 – hum over images 59-60 to 10:07
Skip James- Hard Time Killin’ Floor Blues
youtube.com
www.youtube.com/watch?v=UNftrsCMiQs
59. Bower field and horse – Jim Surkamp
60. TITLE
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In 1754, the New Light Baptists, led by Shubal Stearns, came down from Connecticut, crossed into Virginia at the Opequon & clashed head-on with the Episcopal Church – the State religion.
10:08 – "Deliver" New Light Baptist Church of Pittsburgh over images 61-80 to 12:16
starts at 1:52-5:09
New Light Temple Baptist Church (Pittsburgh, PA) Jubilee Choir 1997
youtube.com
www.youtube.com/watch?v=StiBu3Dla74
61 TITLE
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The children of Africa down through the Shenandoah Valley got it at once. They had every day sung and beat the beat for thousands of years.
62. TITLE
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On farms and plantations, they inhabited their Inner Kingdom and together invented and sang out Truth in the Lion’s den. But using these newly learned Biblical stories, they confounded the Lion.
63-80 New Light Temple Baptist Church (Pittsburgh, PA) Jubilee Choir 1997
CF3 12.16 17.00
SOURCES:
"THE COLORED TROOPS AT PETERSBURG" by GEN. HENRY GODDARD THOMAS. in Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Vol. 4. New York: The Century Co.pp. 563-568
CHAPTER 22 – Manassas: The Men Become One by Jim Surkamp
civilwarscholars.com
civilwarscholars.com/2017/03/story-22-manassas-the-men-be…
CHAPTER 22: Manassas Camp – The Men Become One (from Jasper Tjhompson’s Destiny Day)
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81. TITLE
At any quiet moment together, one might test a tune and sing it into the silence. And the others "study" it, some adding a harmony, or the first person would make the tune or beat better. Others might join. Then more might. And a mountain would
begin to move, lifting hearts.
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82. WITH THE U.S. COLORED TROOPS
83. 23RD INFANTRY REGIMENT
84. ON THE EVE OF THE BATTLE OF THE CRATER JULY 30, 1864
85. "STUDY-ING"
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86, 87, 88
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Adam C. Liscomb, Charles Walker, Henry Yates, George H. Briscoe, Peter Churchwell, Zelotis Fessenden, Noble A. Stewart, John W. Thomas, Francis Tucker, Abraham Tuxon, Basil Tyler, Richard Saunders, Alexander Savoy
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Musical notation of Soldier Song by Maj. Gen. Henry Thomas
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90. Head of a Man (Ira Frederick Aldridge) by John P. Simpson
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91. Maj. Gen Henry Thomas
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News from home by Edwin Forbes – Sept. 30, 1863
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Strolling often around the camp their commander Henry G. Thomas observed later:
Any striking event or piece of news was usually eagerly discussed by the white troops, and in the ranks military critics were as plenty and perhaps more voluble than among the officers.
94. & 95.
[Wounded colored soldiers at Aikens Landing] taken by E. & H.T. Anthony (Firm) – [New York City : E. & H.T. Anthony Co., photographed between 1862 and 1865, printed later]
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Not so with the blacks; important news was usually followed by long silence. They sat about in groups, “studying,” as they called it. They waited, like the Quakers, for the spirit to move; when the spirit moved,
96.
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one of their singers would uplift a mighty voice, like a bard of old, in a wild sort of chant. If he did not strike a sympathetic chord in his hearers,
97 & 98
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if they did not find in his utterance the exponent of their idea, he would sing it again and again, altering sometimes the words, more often the music. If his changes met general acceptance, one voice after another would chime in; a rough harmony of three parts would add itself;
99. 26th United States Colored Volunteer Inf. at Camp William Penn, 1865
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other groups would join his, and the song would become the song of the command.
100.
Camp Fire by Winslow Homer 1880
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One evening Thomas saw this act of creation and wrote down its core.
The joyous guffaw always breaking out about the camp-fire ceased. They formed circles in their company streets and were sitting on the ground intently and solemnly “studying.” At last a heavy voice began to sing,
“We-e looks li-ike we-en a-a-marchin’ on, We looks li-ike men-er-war.”
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Head of a Man (Ira Frederick Aldridge) by John P. Simpson
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Camp Fire by Winslow Homer 1880
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Over and over again he sang it, making slight changes in the melody. The rest listened to him intently; no sign of approval or disapproval escaped their lips or appeared on their faces. All at once, when his refrain had struck the right response in their hearts, his group took it up, and shortly half a thousand voices were upraised extemporizing a half dissonant middle part and bass. It was a picturesque scene these dark men, with their white eyes and teeth and full red lips, crouching over a smoldering camp-fire, in dusky shadow, with only the feeble rays of the lanterns of the first sergeants and the lights of the candles dimly showing through the tents. The sound was as weird as the scene, when all the voices struck the low E (last note but one), held it, and then rose to A with a portamento as sonorous as it was clumsy. Until we fought the battle of the crater they sang this every night to the exclusion of all other songs.- Battles & Leaders V. 4
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103. TITLE
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Songs and laughter heal aching hearts, weary bones
104. Full moon
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104. full moon
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105.
3 AM July 23rd 1850, a full moon
106.
"The Quarter" of A.S. Dandridge – Leetown, then Va.
107.
The morning of the wheat harvest . . .
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Markus James – gourd banjo
Calvin Jackson – hambone
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108.
As usual, cabins in the Quarter vibrated most of the night with song, dance, and laughter around their fires.
109.
Traveling diarists across Virginia reported for decades that the black workers were incredibly fit, slept little,
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sharing the wee hours in a joyous, private world.
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110. Camp Fire by Winslow Homer 1880
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110a. & 110b.
Negro Life at the South by Eastman Johnson – 1859 New-York Historical Society, The Robert L. Stuart Collection
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110b. Kitchen at Mount Vernon by Eastman Johnson – 1864 – Mount Vernon
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110c. Dinah by Eastman Johnson – 1867 Gibbes Museum of Art
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110d., 110e., 110f. Georgia Geechee Gullah Ring Shouters
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mhenrystl Georgia Geechee Gullah Ring Shouters
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110g. Four Studies of the Head of a Negro by Peter Paul Rubens – 1615 Royal Museum of Fine Arts of Belgium
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110h. Uncle Tom and Little Eva by Edwin Long 1866 – Russell-Cotes Art Gallery & Museum
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110i. Head of a Moor by Peter Paul Rubens – 1620 – Hyde Collection
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** We’re bakin’ cakes for the ‘morrow
111. Camp Fire by Winslow Homer 1880
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112. Camp Fire by Winslow Homer 1880
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begin Bayard
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At four o’clock in the morning smoke was still rising from the huts of the negroes. They have fire during the entire night, and in the hottest season. Often, instead of sleeping, they smoke, sing or converse, without that loss of sleep affecting them.
114. Dance in Congo Square in the late 18th century, artist’s conception by E. W. Kemble from a century later
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Almost all of them, after a night devoted to pleasure, can take up their labor without
115. Carolus-Duran, l’homme endormi, 1861, hst
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experiencing that weariness that a white man would feel who had been deprived of his rest.
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at four o’clock in the morning smoke was still rising from the huts of the negroes
They have fire during the entire night, and in the hottest season. Often, instead of sleeping, they smoke, sing or converse, without that loss of sleep affecting them. Almost all of them, after a night devoted to pleasure, can take up their labor without experiencing that weariness that a white man would feel who had been deprived of his rest.
Bayard, Ferdinand Marie, (1950). "Travels of a Frenchman in Maryland and Virginia,
with a description of Philadelphia and Baltimore, in 1791: or, Travels in the interior of the United States, to Bath, Winchester, in the valley of the Shenandoah, etc., etc., during the summer of 1791." Translated by Ben C. McCary. An Arbor, MU: Edwards Brothers.
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CHAPTER XXVII
I set out at four o’clock in the morning in order to be able to be on the mountains before the sun was too high. A light fog cov ered the valley like a transparent veil, and through which appeared the tree tops, the houses of the planters, as well as the huts of the Negroes, from which smoke was still rising. The slaves have fire during the entire night, and in the hottest season. Often, instead of sleeping, they smoke, sing or converse, without that loss of sleep affecting them. Almost all of them, after a night devoted to pleas ure, can take up their labor without experiencing that weariness that a white man would feel who had been deprived of his rest.
I found the squirrels wide awake. They were climbing with agility in the largest oaks, taking the precaution to keep the entire thickness of the body of the tree between them and me, whom they looked at from time to time to be sure that I had not gone round their file leader. The instinct of self preservation no doubt sug gested to them that precaution which presents the greatest obsta cles to the hunter; but all that ruse does not preserve them from the shot of the enemy; it has made him only more skillful.
In the regions where, as in the Shenandoah Valley, squirrels are very numerous, they are hunted without dogs; but if you want to kill a great number of them, you must get up early in the morn ing and wait for them to return from their nightly wanderings.
There are three species of squirrels, the first differs from the one we know in France only in that it is smaller, and the Amer icans call the members of this group Fox-Squirrel; the second, smaller, has grey fur; the third still smaller, but of the same color, is that of the flying squirrels: the latter have two mem branes which they spread out when they spring from one tree to another. The flesh of the grey squirrels is white and tender: they are roasted and seasoned with cream sauce: the furriers buy their skins.
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I never meet a man — unless he is quite old — that he is not whistling ; and the women sing from morning till night. And as to dancing, the hardest day’s work does not restrain their desire to indulge in such pastime.
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116. The Old Plantation. Courtesy of the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Center, Williamsburg, Va.
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I never met a negro man — unless he is quite old — that he is not whistling;
117. Georgia Geechee Gullah Ring Shouters
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and the women sing from morning till night.
118. Self-Portrait by Eastman Johnson 1865 – Brooklyn Museum
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And as to dancing, the hardest day’s work does not restrain their desire to indulge in such pastime.
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They are great sportsmen, too.
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They angle and haul the seine, and hunt and tend their traps, with a zest that never grows weary.
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Their gayety of heart is constitutional and perennial, and when they are together they are as voluble and noisy. birds. In short, I think them the most good-natured, and happily-constructed human beings I have ever seen.
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During the harvest, when their toil is pushed to its utmost, they dance almost the whole night. – Swallow Barn pp. 454-455
119. sunrise over wheat field
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120. Men Harvesting Grain with Scythes
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121. John Pendleton Kennedy, C.1825
by Philip Tilyard
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JPK – wrote of life at The Bower that I know well. I have seen that they are also great sportsmen, too.
122. Mending the Net 1882 by Thomas Eakins
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1882 Mending the Net
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They angle and haul the seine, and hunt and tend their traps,
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with a zest that never grows weary.
124. The Dancing Boy – 1878 by Thomas Eakins
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Their gaiety of heart is constitutional and perennial, and when they are together they are voluble and noisy. In short, I think them the most good-natured, and happily-constructed human beings I have ever seen.
125. Uncle Tom and Little Eva by Edwin Longsden Long – 1866 Russell-Cotes Art Gallery & Museum, Bournemouth
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INSERT PAULING
DEAR FRANK,
126.
The Banjo Lesson 1893 by Henry Ossawa Tanner
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They are by far the most musical of any portion of the inhabitants of the United States, and in the evening I have seen them reclining in their boats on the canal at Richmond, playing on the banjo, and singing in a style — I dare say, equal to a Venetian Gondolier.
Then they whistle as clear as the notes of the fife and their laugh is the very echo of hilarity.
Paulding, James Kirke. (1817) "Letters from the South, written during an excursion in the summer of 1816." New York, Published by James Eastburn & co.
p. 118
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They are by far the most musical of any portion of the inhabitants of the United States, and in the evening I have seen them playing on the banjo, and singing in a style — I dare say, equal to a Venetian Gondolier.
127. African American man singing
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The Best Singing Gondolier at the Venetian, Las Vegas – Tino!
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128. Venetian
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Then they whistle as clear as the notes of the fife ;
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130.
Irish Hornpipes – Wouter Kellerman on Fife – The Live Sessions (Part 1)
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DontWorryBeHappy #Vevo
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132. James Kirke Paulding
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and their laugh is the very echo of hilarity.
133. Four Studies of the Head of a Negro (black) by Peter Paul Rubens
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and their laugh is the very echo of hilarity.
END PAULDING
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He will make himself happy in the traps that have been laid for him; he will roll in their nets and sleep. All doors will fly open to him
134. Jacob Jordaens, Study of a Black Man’s Head (ca. 1620). Medium and size unknown. Formerly New York, Estate of Jacob Goldschmidt; present location unknown
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Black tronies in seventeenth-centur y Flemish ar t and the African presence
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who has a mildness more defiant than mere courage.
135. Barroom Dancing by John Lewis Krimmel – 1828 –
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He will be always "taken in." To be taken in everywhere is to see
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the inside of everything.
SOURCE on the greenhorn
G.K. Chesterton Pick Papers notes
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137. Thoughts of Liberia – Emancipation by Edward White 1861 – New York Historical Society
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137a. You sang
137b. away
137c. being owned
You sang away being owned
138. Four Studies of the Head of a Negro by Peter Paul Rubens
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139 Four Studies of the Head of a Negro by Peter Paul Rubens
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140 Georgia Geechee Gullah Ring Shouters
Plantation Dance ring shout (3 still images)
mhenrystl Georgia Geechee Gullah Ring Shouters
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141 full moon
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JPK
Their fondness for music and dancing is a predominant passion. I never meet a negro man — unless he is quite old — that he is not whistling ; and the women sing from morning till night. And as to dancing, the hardest day’s work does not restrain their desire to indulge in such pastime. During the harvest, when their toil is pushed to its utmost — the time being one of recognized privileges — they dance almost the whole night. They are great sportsmen, too. They angle and haul the seine, and hunt and tend their traps, with a zest that never grows weary. Their gayety of heart is constitutional and perennial, and when they are together they are voluble and noisy. In short, I think them the most good-natured, careless, light-hearted, and happily-constructed human beings I have ever seen.
Swallow Barn pp. 454
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CHAPTER 11 – A Year’s Work in 1850 by Jim Surkamp
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142. Tin Horn 12 Years a Slave movie
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142a. Bower field and horse – Jim Surkamp
142b. Sunrise on wheat field
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23:14 – cutting wheat with scythes over image 143 to 23:55
23:22 – Rosie work song over image 143 to 23:59
Alan Lomax, Negro Prison & Blues Songs Rosie
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143. Men Harvesting Grain with Scythes
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23:59 – Shana Aisenberg on mandolin over images 144-153 to 25:53.
144a. 1850 Poor Richard’s Almanac
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144b. Farmers Nooning by William Sidney Mount – 1836
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145. Stacking wheat by Edwin Forbes. – 1863 loc.gov
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146. Corn Husking by Eastman Johnson – 1860
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147. Charleston Vegetable Woman by William Aiken Walker
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148b. A patent of nobility by David Hunter Strother –
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149. The Sower by Jean-François Millet – 1850 Museum of Fine Arts – Gift of Quincy Adams Shaw through Quincy Adams Shaw, Jr., and Mrs. Marian Shaw Haughton
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150a. Cider_Colonial-Press_Retouched
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150b. Campfire
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150c. apple in palm of dark hand
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151a. Catching Hogs by David Hunter Strother 1857 – West Virginia and Regional History Center accession number (W1995.030.004)
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151b. Smoked Ham at the Bonnie Crest Inn, North Carolina by William Aiken Walker – 1886
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152b. (center) “JENNY . . .A GOOD SPINSTER”
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152a. winding yarn by David H. Strother, Harper’s (Aug., 1856)
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152c. Lock’s Old Stephen. by D.H. Strother – 1845. Martinsburg Va. (P.95.30.391pg19)
West Virginia and Regional History Center David Hunter Strother, Artist, Artwork and Papers Series
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This is the third of about four videos.
I am working with Charles Fox, whose family descended from the remarkable John H. Fox, the owner/operator of three different farms and community leader, revered upon his death and who was born enslaved at the Bower.
I was absorbed in the question of how could and why did those enslaved sang,laughed and danced and even stayed up without sleeping and still working long days in the fields. And yes it is true as a consistent fact of life in Virginia in the early 19th century. I found the same observations in five different diaries in this immediate region. And I came to realize a great truth in this fact which will be explored in the third video. We have been served terribly with descriptions of enslaved peersons as being "child-like and pathetic" ignoring the obvious reality that they received their almost superhuman strength coming from their faith and African musical tradition. That African Americans routinely become the best in any athletic field they enter and the worldwide influence of their musical talents – gospel blues swing jazz motown etc. just underscore these earlier daily practices so long ago.
Glamorous and famous for its visitors (Washington Irving, Robert E. Lee, Jeb Stuart’s entire staff lived there for a month), the pre-Civil War owners practiced people-owning on a large scale – usually about sixty enslaved persons who kept up production there from day to day. A close reading of daily accounts reveals just how much the deepest, knowledge of hunting, cooking, horses etc resided in the most experienced persons of color.
It became famous as the place John Pendleton Kennedy, a relative from Baltimore who also supported Edgar Allan Poe, based his widely read book: "Swallow Barn: A Sojourn in the Old Dominion," that was published in 1832 and 1850.
It was a divided family, with regard to the Civil War, with author Kennedy opposing secession, the Dandridges at the Bower strongly supporting, or as Philip Kennedy put it – Adam Dandridge ate a strong "allowance of the insane root" to quote from Macbeth.
It might include a tragic love story. When John Fox was born in 1845 Adam Stephen Dandridge II was the only adult white male at The Bower.
It circles around Adam Dandridge II and Charles Fox’s great great grandmother "Mary" who was killed at the Bower.
It also follows the incredibly impressive John Fox, one of Mary’s five surviving children and culminates with Charles Fox’s powerfully impressive, of-the-earth, wisdom-dispensing grandfather, Charles Washington Fox.
We’ll leave it at that.
Care is taken to stay consistent with all information in official records (death certificates, Census, marriage records, deeds, and wills) in addition to the Fox family oral tradition, first transmitted by John Fox, with his eye-witness knowledge.
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00: – Michael Praetorius: Dances from Terpsichore, Courante
Voices of Music over images 1-7 to :54 – youtube.com
Michael Praetorius: Dances from Terpsichore, Courante
Voices of Music
Hanneke van Proosdij and David Tayler
Directors
Musicians (left to right)
Carla Moore, Gabrielle Wunsch, Lisa Grodin and
Maxine Nemerovski, baroque violins
Maria Caswell, baroque viola
Peter Maund, riqq
Elisabeth Reed and Tanya Tomkins, baroque cellos
Farley Pearce, violone
Hanneke van Proosdij, harpsichord
David Tayler, archlute & percussion
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1.
Two Women with Head-Ties, Jamaica, 1808-1815 – loc.gov
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2.
Robert Greenhow Jr., ca. 1808, Charles B. J. Févret de Saint-Mémin (French, 1770 – 1852), pastel and crayon on toned paper, 18 3/8 x 14 in. (47.9 x 35.6 cm.). Gift of Mrs. William R. Scott 98.3.3/3
vmfa.museum
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Man Smoking a Pipe, ca. 1800-1825
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4.
Mrs. Robert Greenhow Sr. (Mary Ann Willis), ca. 1808, Charles B. J. Févret de Saint-Mémin, (French, 1770 – 1852), pastel and crayon on toned paper, 19 5/8 x 13 7/8 in. (49.8 x 35.3 cm. ). Gift of Mrs. William R. Scott 98.3.1/3
vmfa.museum
www.vmfa.museum/tours/audio-tours/web-tour-friend-heart-c…
5. Tangerian Girl by José Tapiro y Baro – 1891. Dahesh Museum of Art in New York
arthistoryproject.com
arthistoryproject.com/artists/jose-tapiro-y-baro/tangeria…
6.
Robert Greenhow Sr., ca. 1808, Charles B. J. Févret de Saint-Mémin (French, 1770 – 1852), pastel and crayon on toned paper, 19 5/8 x 14 1/8 in. (48.8 x 35.9 cm.). Gift of Mrs. William R. Scott 98.3.2/3
vmfa.museum
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7.
Absalam by SANTIAGO ARCOS Y MEGALDE
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8. Title
9. Bower aerial
Google Maps
google.com/maps
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10. rear exit The Bower taken by Edwin Fitzpatrick
Jefferson County Historical Society (1991). "Between the Shenandoah & the Potomac."
Charles Town, WV: self-published. p. ADD
11. brief moving dresses no sound – Gone With the Wind (fair use)
12. Portrait of Adam Stephen Dandridge, Sr. (1782-1821) by Charles Peale Polk 1799-1800
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13. same as 11
14. Portrait of Sarah Pendleton Dandridge (Mrs. Adam Stephen Dandridge, Sr.)(1785-1855)
by James W. Macoughtry, Jr. 1831
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15. The first quadrille at Almack’s From Recollections of Captain Gronow (1850)
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16. The "Trenis" Quadrille, Plate 19 from "Le Bon Genre," 1805
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17. swirling dress
Gone With tHe Wind fair use and
18. Figure 11. A German Cotillion, Vienna, c.1825. From Scenes du Bal by Charles Henry.
regencydances.org
www.regencydances.org/paper011.php
19. Object: Le baiser deviné; Series: Le Bon Genre – 1812
britishmuseum.org
www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1866-0407-902
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1:41 – Summer Nights from Desert Winds produced by Shana Aisenberg over images 20-26 to 3:23
2:22 – FX carriages, hooves, horses over images 24-26 to 3:23
2:24 – FX Owl frogs autumn over images 24-25 to 3:01
20. Spider’s web in the sun
21. James Kirke Paulding
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Author Government of the United States
22. Joseph of Egypt
frchriszugger.com
frchriszugger.com/2018/03/21/joseph-of-egypt-and-christ/
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J. K. Paulding: I once knew a worthy old lady, who never saw or heard any thing in this World that did not put her in mind of Joseph in Egypt. Whenever any thing was told her, no matter what,
23. A pretty girl and an old woman both taking snuff. Coloured stipple engraving after L. Boilly, ca. 1827.
wellcomecollection.org INCLUDE Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
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she would take a pinch of snuff, and exclaim with a devotional air, “Ah! that puts me in mind of Joseph in Egypt.” Nobody could tell why; but so it was
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Paulding, James Kirke. (1835). "Letters from the South By a Northern man."
New-York : Harper & brothers
p. 50 Vol 2
babel.hathitrust.org
babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uiug.30112046404643&vi…
24. TITLE James Kirke Paulding in 1816, while heading north in the Shenandoah Valley
to Martinsburg:
25. Shenandoah Valley by William Louis Sonntag, Sr. 1859–1860Virginia Historical Society
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In traversing this mountain region, one of the first things that struck me was the solemn, severe silence which prevailed every where, and only broken at distant intervals, by the note of the cock of the woods; the chirping of a ground squirrel; the crash of a falling tree, or the long echoes of the fowler’s gun, which render the silence, thus broken in upon for a moment, still more striking.
p. 116 vol 1
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babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uiug.30112046404387&vi…
26. Drawing by Garth Williams, 1953 version of Little House in the Big Woods, pg. 123
silverhomestead.com
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In many places the only traces of human agency are the incisions of the sugar maple, and the little troughs at the foot of the tree turned upside down, to wait the flowing of the sap in the spring.
Paulding Vol. 1 p. 118
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3:23 – FX hum of voices over images 27-30 to 5:32
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Begins
Paulding, James Kirke. (1817) "Letters from the South, written during an excursion in the summer of 1816." New York, Published by James Eastburn & co.
pp. 117-131
p. 121
archive.org/details/lettersfromsouth01paul/page/121/mode/1up
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27. James Kirke Paulding
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At one of the taverns along the road, we were set down in the same room with a man, who was
28.
Eugène Pelletan by Nadar 1855–59 – Purchase, The Howard Gilman Foundation Gift and Rogers Fund,
metmuseum.org/
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an ill-looking, hard-featured, pock-marked, fellow. He was going, it seems, to Richmond.
WARNING DISTURBING ACCOUNTS OF EXTREME CRUELTY
All along the road, I made it his business to inquire where lived a man who might perhaps be tempted to sell him his slaves and when I got some half a dozen of them, I tied their hands behind their backs, and drove them three or four hundred miles, or more, bare-headed, and half naked, I gave out that they were runaway slaves I was carrying home to their masters.
On one occasion a black woman exposed this fallacy, and told the story of her being kidnapped; and (123) when I got her into a wood out of hearing, I beat her, till her back was white."
I married all the men and women I bought, because they would sell better for being man and wife !
"For many is the time I have separated wives from husbands, and husbands from wives, and parents from children ;
but then I made them amends by marrying them again as soon as I had a chance
I made one bad purchase, though," I bought a young mulatto girl, a lovely creature, — a great bargain. She had been the favourite of her master, who had lately married.
The difficulty was, to get her to go ; for she loved her master.
However, I swore most bitterly I was only going to take her to her mother at , and she went with me; though she seemed to doubt me very much.
But when she discovered at last that we were out of the State, I thought she would go mad ; and, in fact, the next night, drowned herself in the river close by.
I lost a good five hundred dollars by this foolish trick,
p. 121
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29. James Kirke Paulding
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page 120
it is seldom we see the ties of kindred or of conjugal affection, stronger than in the poor negro. He will travel twelre, fifteen, or twenty miles, to see his wife and children, after his daily
30. by Miguel Ângelo Lupi 1879. This is a couple of former slaves that accompained a portuguese aristocrat, Serpa Pinto, in his voyages through Africa
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page 121
labour is over, and return in the morning to his labour again. If he obtains his liberty, he will often devote the first years of his liberty to buying their freedom; — thus setting an example of conjugal and parental affection, which the white man may indeed admire ; but, it is feared, would seldom imitate.
pp. 120-121
archive.org
archive.org/details/lettersfromsouth01paul/page/120/mode/1up
Paulding, James Kirke. (1817) "Letters from the South, written during an excursion in the summer of 1816." New York, Published by James Eastburn & co.
pp. 117-131
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Gourd Banjo and Hambone on a Mississippi Porch
Markus James – gourd banjo
Calvin Jackson – hambone
From the album "Head For The Hills" by Markus James;
As heard in the HBO film "The Immortal Life Of Henrietta Lacks" featuring Oprah Winfrey
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youtube.com
www.youtube.com/watch?v=gTKE3IaVVmA
Images 31, 32 and 34-38
The Old Plantation attributed to John Rose
Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Museum, Williamsburg, Virginia
wikipedia.org
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Old_Plantation#/media/File:Slav…
33. Bower Farm Leetown WV – Jim Surkamp
39. The Highest Bidder by Harry Roseland
encore-editions.com
www.encore-editions.com/to-the-highest-bidder-by-harry-ro…
40.The Power of Music by Wm Sidney Mount – 1847
theimaginativeconservative.org
theimaginativeconservative.org/2018/11/images-america-wil…
41. "Aunt Lucy" Hermitage – 1915
Essie Collins Matthews, Aunt Phebe, Uncle Tom and Others: Character Studies Among the Old Slaves of the South, Fifty Years After: illustrated from photographs made by the author in the cabins and on the plantations (Columbus, Ohio, 1915)
slaveryimages.org
slaveryimages.org/s/slaveryimages/item/1553
Aunt Phebe, Uncle Tom and Other, p. 104
42. Man with axe
Kennedy, John Pendleton, (1856) "Swallow barn, or, A sojourn in the Old Dominion." New York, G.P. Putnam & Company.
p. 404
hathitrust.org
babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=nyp.33433076089170&vie…
43a. Head of a Black man by Eastman Johnson – 1868
wikiart.org
www.wikiart.org/en/eastman-johnson/head-of-a-black-man-1868
43b. Frank Wagoner by D.H. Strother Harpers Feb. 1855, p. 300
babel.hathitrust.org
babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015056090080&vie…
44. The Banjo Player by Wm Sidney Mount – 1856
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theimaginativeconservative.org/2018/11/images-america-wil…
45. Swallow Barn man with pipe
Kennedy, John Pendleton, (1856) "Swallow barn, or, A sojourn in the Old Dominion." New York, G.P. Putnam & Company.
p. 448
hathitrust.org
babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=nyp.33433076089170&vie…
46a. Bill Napper by D.H. Strother 1845
P.95.30.391pg13
West Virginia and Regional History Center David Hunter Strother, Artist, Artwork and Papers Series 6. Artworks, 1833-1887, undated
archives.lib.wvu.edu
archives.lib.wvu.edu/repositories/2/archival_objects/105044
46b. detail The Power of Music by Wm Sidney Mount – 1847
theimaginativeconservative.org
theimaginativeconservative.org/2018/11/images-america-wil…
47a. “A Swedish Gentleman instructing a Negro Prince” by Carl Fredric von Breda – 1789
Karolina Kristensson, © Nordiska museet
digitaltmuseum.se
digitaltmuseum.se/011023459953/tavla
47b. cook by D.H. Strother Harpers Jan. 1856 p. 177
babel.hathitrust.org
babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015056090064&vie…
47c. Antique Martinique Merchant
www.picclick.com
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48. Shell Mound Station by D.H. Strother
P.95.30.393pg4a
West Virginia and Regional History Center David Hunter Strother, Artist, Artwork and Papers Series 6. Artworks, 1833-1887, undated
archives.lib.wvu.edu
archives.lib.wvu.edu/repositories/2/archival_objects/105044
SOURCES of given persons: names in this chapter:
First Section
Pinco – from account book of A.S.Dandridge II – Jefferson County Museum & The Mighty Myth of the Happy Plantation at civilwarscholars.com;
Carey (Swallow Barn);
Cate, Eliza, Serina, Anne and Mary (wills of Adam Stephen and his daughter, Anne Stephen Hunter),
Second Section – Source of persons’ names in the montage
Walter Dean Myers, who was born in Martinsburg, descended from the Dennis family who worked at The Bower and has become a respected author, wrote this in his book, “Now Is Your Time”:
“In 1849, Adam Stephen Dandridge II lived at The Bower and ran the plantation. His brother Philip lived nearby. When Philip needed to secure his loans, he put up part of his inheritance, which consisted of part of the Bower lands and his Africans:
‘The following slaves, the property of the said Philip P. Dandridge, now in his possession in Jefferson County, or in the custody of Dr. Gellot Hollingsworth and Samuel Hollingsworth, in the State of Louisiana, together with the increase (children) of said slaves – vis; Cato, Henny, George, Robert, John, Daniel, James, Simon, Peter, Tina, Caroline, Leah, Mary Ann and her children, Rachael, Ann, Louisa & children, Frances, Margaret, Patty, including all of the slaves of the said Philip P. Dandridge, whether named or not. . . to secure a debt of said P. P. Dandridge’ – (Myers, P. 99)
The Mighty Myth of the Happy Plantation
civilwarscholars.com/2011/06/sample-post/
interview 2002 with Jim Surkamp
civilwarscholars.com
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7:20 – Shana Aisenberg on banjo with accompaniment over images 49
49. "Mary" semblance
David Hunter Strother, Sketches of “contrabands,” enslaved African Americans who crossed into the federal lines, 1862. Courtesy of the Library of Virginia.
southernspaces.org
southernspaces.org/2010/retelling-virginias-migration-his…
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I got this from Uncle Dewey because he spoke for black history month down here. He said that somebody told the mistress there was four little foxes down there looking out the window: She got the market basket and went down ‘thought he was talking about animals.
And they were these Negro children. So of course she told the master. So he said: ‘Well just bring ‘em on up here and he put ‘em in the kitchen. And he said they would take a tub, like a foot tub, put bread in it, and milk, pour it in there and they ate with the cats and dogs under the kitchen table.
But by being at the big house, they learned to talk. They learned to read. They just learned things. When you’re ’round, you pick up – he was not back there in the field somewhere.
So, one of ’em became a preacher. One of ’em became a cook. And that one I think – we would say – like a butler. He was ssomething like – if you saw "Roots" – he was like Chicken John. And as I said, the girl, they lost trace of her. Steve went to Ohio. So they lost trace of him. And farmer John, see, he bought the oxen and he cut lumber. He was known as a lumber jacket.
And if you would read the history of St. Paul’s Church, it was John Fox – that’s my grandfather – It was George Johnson – grandfather on my mother’s side, a Carter and I think three other men – bought that piece of land where that church is. They paid for it. An’ lot of the lumber in the church John Fox gave.
50. Bertha Jones, Jefferson Co. NAACP Executive Committee
jeffcomuseumwv.pastperfectonline.com
jeffcomuseumwv.pastperfectonline.com/archive/75847923-F4F…
51. Sunday Morning in Virginia by Winslow Homer – 1877 Cincinnati Art Museum
commons.wikimedia.org
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Winslow_Homer_-_Sunday_Mo…
52a. A patent of nobility by D. H. Strother Harpers July, 1866 p. 139
babel.hathitrust.org
babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015056090353&vie…
52b
Benjamin Fox
findagrave.com
www.findagrave.com/memorial/190534275/benjamin-f-fox
53.
Humphery black child on horseback by D.H. Strother
P.95.30.390pg13
West Virginia and Regional History Center David Hunter Strother, Artist, Artwork and Papers Series 6. Artworks, 1833-1887, undated
archives.lib.wvu.edu
archives.lib.wvu.edu/repositories/2/archival_objects/105044
54.
Mary Kindling the fire by D.H. Strother Harpers Aug, 1855 p. 295
babel.hathitrust.org
babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015056090072&vie…
55.
Steve Aunt Winnie by D.F. Strother Harper’s Aug, 1856 p. 310
babel.hathitrust.org
babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015056089801&vie…
56. Bower field and horse by Jim Surkamp
57a.
(John Fox semblance) African American boy sitting by D. H. Strother – 1864
P.95.30.345
West Virginia and Regional History Center David Hunter Strother, Artist, Artwork and Papers Series 6. Artworks, 1833-1887, undated
archives.lib.wvu.edu
archives.lib.wvu.edu/repositories/2/archival_objects/105044
57b. John Henry Fox – courtesy Charles Fox
58
St. Paul’s Baptist Church
Kearneysville, WV
google.com/maps
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later
"Baltimore" tea et by D.H. Strother 1860
P.95.30.27
West Virginia and Regional History Center David Hunter Strother, Artist, Artwork and Papers Series 6. Artworks, 1833-1887, undated
archives.lib.wvu.edu
archives.lib.wvu.edu/repositories/2/archival_objects/105044
The Wood-pile by D.F. Strother Harper’s Aug, 1856 p. 316
babel.hathitrust.org
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for litle potatoe segment
CF 3 9:48 12.14
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9:48 – hum over images 59-60 to 10:07
Skip James- Hard Time Killin’ Floor Blues
youtube.com
www.youtube.com/watch?v=UNftrsCMiQs
59. Bower field and horse – Jim Surkamp
60. TITLE
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In 1754, the New Light Baptists, led by Shubal Stearns, came down from Connecticut, crossed into Virginia at the Opequon & clashed head-on with the Episcopal Church – the State religion.
10:08 – "Deliver" New Light Baptist Church of Pittsburgh over images 61-80 to 12:16
starts at 1:52-5:09
New Light Temple Baptist Church (Pittsburgh, PA) Jubilee Choir 1997
youtube.com
www.youtube.com/watch?v=StiBu3Dla74
61 TITLE
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The children of Africa down through the Shenandoah Valley got it at once. They had every day sung and beat the beat for thousands of years.
62. TITLE
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On farms and plantations, they inhabited their Inner Kingdom and together invented and sang out Truth in the Lion’s den. But using these newly learned Biblical stories, they confounded the Lion.
63-80 New Light Temple Baptist Church (Pittsburgh, PA) Jubilee Choir 1997
CF3 12.16 17.00
SOURCES:
"THE COLORED TROOPS AT PETERSBURG" by GEN. HENRY GODDARD THOMAS. in Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Vol. 4. New York: The Century Co.pp. 563-568
CHAPTER 22 – Manassas: The Men Become One by Jim Surkamp
civilwarscholars.com
civilwarscholars.com/2017/03/story-22-manassas-the-men-be…
CHAPTER 22: Manassas Camp – The Men Become One (from Jasper Tjhompson’s Destiny Day)
youtube.com
youtu.be/KSXoj0c5My4#t=2h49m57s
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hum over images 59-60 to 10:07
Skip James- Hard Time Killin’ Floor Blues
youtube.com
www.youtube.com/watch?v=UNftrsCMiQs
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81. TITLE
At any quiet moment together, one might test a tune and sing it into the silence. And the others "study" it, some adding a harmony, or the first person would make the tune or beat better. Others might join. Then more might. And a mountain would
begin to move, lifting hearts.
TITLES:
82. WITH THE U.S. COLORED TROOPS
83. 23RD INFANTRY REGIMENT
84. ON THE EVE OF THE BATTLE OF THE CRATER JULY 30, 1864
85. "STUDY-ING"
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12:56 – Soldier Song by Shana Aisenberg over images 85-92 to 13:35
13:35 – guitar by Shana Aisenberg over images 92-102 to 15:15
15:15 over images 102-104 to 17:10
86, 87, 88
[Wounded colored soldiers at Aikens Landing] taken by E. & H.T. Anthony (Firm) – [New York City : E. & H.T. Anthony Co., photographed between 1862 and 1865, printed later]
loc.gov
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Robert K. Beecham, James Douglas, Voghl Foster, George Kellum, John H. Simms, George W. Taylor, Uriah Perry, Perry Smith, James Smith, William H. Chandler,
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Adam C. Liscomb, Charles Walker, Henry Yates, George H. Briscoe, Peter Churchwell, Zelotis Fessenden, Noble A. Stewart, John W. Thomas, Francis Tucker, Abraham Tuxon, Basil Tyler, Richard Saunders, Alexander Savoy
89.
Musical notation of Soldier Song by Maj. Gen. Henry Thomas
p. 564
archive.org/stream/battlesleadersof04cent#page/564/mode/1up
90. Head of a Man (Ira Frederick Aldridge) by John P. Simpson
tate.org.uk
www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/simpson-head-of-a-man-ira-fr…
dual
91. Maj. Gen Henry Thomas
p. 565
archive.org/stream/battlesleadersof04cent#page/565/mode/1up
92.
Drawing by Ward S. Day, 5th New York, Company C
93.
News from home by Edwin Forbes – Sept. 30, 1863
loc.gov
www.loc.gov/pictures/resource/ppmsca.20648/
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Strolling often around the camp their commander Henry G. Thomas observed later:
Any striking event or piece of news was usually eagerly discussed by the white troops, and in the ranks military critics were as plenty and perhaps more voluble than among the officers.
94. & 95.
[Wounded colored soldiers at Aikens Landing] taken by E. & H.T. Anthony (Firm) – [New York City : E. & H.T. Anthony Co., photographed between 1862 and 1865, printed later]
loc.gov
www.loc.gov/item/98500957/
Not so with the blacks; important news was usually followed by long silence. They sat about in groups, “studying,” as they called it. They waited, like the Quakers, for the spirit to move; when the spirit moved,
96.
Head of a Man (Ira Frederick Aldridge) by John P. Simpson
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one of their singers would uplift a mighty voice, like a bard of old, in a wild sort of chant. If he did not strike a sympathetic chord in his hearers,
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[Wounded colored soldiers at Aikens Landing] taken by E. & H.T. Anthony (Firm) – [New York City : E. & H.T. Anthony Co., photographed between 1862 and 1865, printed later]
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if they did not find in his utterance the exponent of their idea, he would sing it again and again, altering sometimes the words, more often the music. If his changes met general acceptance, one voice after another would chime in; a rough harmony of three parts would add itself;
99. 26th United States Colored Volunteer Inf. at Camp William Penn, 1865
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other groups would join his, and the song would become the song of the command.
100.
Camp Fire by Winslow Homer 1880
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One evening Thomas saw this act of creation and wrote down its core.
The joyous guffaw always breaking out about the camp-fire ceased. They formed circles in their company streets and were sitting on the ground intently and solemnly “studying.” At last a heavy voice began to sing,
“We-e looks li-ike we-en a-a-marchin’ on, We looks li-ike men-er-war.”
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Head of a Man (Ira Frederick Aldridge) by John P. Simpson
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Camp Fire by Winslow Homer 1880
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Over and over again he sang it, making slight changes in the melody. The rest listened to him intently; no sign of approval or disapproval escaped their lips or appeared on their faces. All at once, when his refrain had struck the right response in their hearts, his group took it up, and shortly half a thousand voices were upraised extemporizing a half dissonant middle part and bass. It was a picturesque scene these dark men, with their white eyes and teeth and full red lips, crouching over a smoldering camp-fire, in dusky shadow, with only the feeble rays of the lanterns of the first sergeants and the lights of the candles dimly showing through the tents. The sound was as weird as the scene, when all the voices struck the low E (last note but one), held it, and then rose to A with a portamento as sonorous as it was clumsy. Until we fought the battle of the crater they sang this every night to the exclusion of all other songs.- Battles & Leaders V. 4
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103. TITLE
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Songs and laughter heal aching hearts, weary bones
104. Full moon
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104. full moon
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TITLES
105.
3 AM July 23rd 1850, a full moon
106.
"The Quarter" of A.S. Dandridge – Leetown, then Va.
107.
The morning of the wheat harvest . . .
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From the album "Head For The Hills" by Markus James
Markus James – gourd banjo
Calvin Jackson – hambone
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Black People Laughing | Try Not To Laugh Challenge
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108.
As usual, cabins in the Quarter vibrated most of the night with song, dance, and laughter around their fires.
109.
Traveling diarists across Virginia reported for decades that the black workers were incredibly fit, slept little,
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sharing the wee hours in a joyous, private world.
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110. Camp Fire by Winslow Homer 1880
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clockwise begin lower vieer’s right"
110a. & 110b.
Negro Life at the South by Eastman Johnson – 1859 New-York Historical Society, The Robert L. Stuart Collection
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110b. Kitchen at Mount Vernon by Eastman Johnson – 1864 – Mount Vernon
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110c. Dinah by Eastman Johnson – 1867 Gibbes Museum of Art
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110d., 110e., 110f. Georgia Geechee Gullah Ring Shouters
Plantation Dance ring shout (3 still images)
mhenrystl Georgia Geechee Gullah Ring Shouters
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110g. Four Studies of the Head of a Negro by Peter Paul Rubens – 1615 Royal Museum of Fine Arts of Belgium
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110h. Uncle Tom and Little Eva by Edwin Long 1866 – Russell-Cotes Art Gallery & Museum
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110i. Head of a Moor by Peter Paul Rubens – 1620 – Hyde Collection
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110j. Negro Life at the South by Eastman Johnson – 1859 New-York Historical Society, The Robert L. Stuart Collection
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** We’re bakin’ cakes for the ‘morrow
111. Camp Fire by Winslow Homer 1880
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** "Mush Cake" "Corn Cake" lard + cornmeal + water salt
112. Camp Fire by Winslow Homer 1880
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begin Bayard
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At four o’clock in the morning smoke was still rising from the huts of the negroes. They have fire during the entire night, and in the hottest season. Often, instead of sleeping, they smoke, sing or converse, without that loss of sleep affecting them.
114. Dance in Congo Square in the late 18th century, artist’s conception by E. W. Kemble from a century later
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Almost all of them, after a night devoted to pleasure, can take up their labor without
115. Carolus-Duran, l’homme endormi, 1861, hst
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experiencing that weariness that a white man would feel who had been deprived of his rest.
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at four o’clock in the morning smoke was still rising from the huts of the negroes
They have fire during the entire night, and in the hottest season. Often, instead of sleeping, they smoke, sing or converse, without that loss of sleep affecting them. Almost all of them, after a night devoted to pleasure, can take up their labor without experiencing that weariness that a white man would feel who had been deprived of his rest.
Bayard, Ferdinand Marie, (1950). "Travels of a Frenchman in Maryland and Virginia,
with a description of Philadelphia and Baltimore, in 1791: or, Travels in the interior of the United States, to Bath, Winchester, in the valley of the Shenandoah, etc., etc., during the summer of 1791." Translated by Ben C. McCary. An Arbor, MU: Edwards Brothers.
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CHAPTER XXVII
I set out at four o’clock in the morning in order to be able to be on the mountains before the sun was too high. A light fog cov ered the valley like a transparent veil, and through which appeared the tree tops, the houses of the planters, as well as the huts of the Negroes, from which smoke was still rising. The slaves have fire during the entire night, and in the hottest season. Often, instead of sleeping, they smoke, sing or converse, without that loss of sleep affecting them. Almost all of them, after a night devoted to pleas ure, can take up their labor without experiencing that weariness that a white man would feel who had been deprived of his rest.
I found the squirrels wide awake. They were climbing with agility in the largest oaks, taking the precaution to keep the entire thickness of the body of the tree between them and me, whom they looked at from time to time to be sure that I had not gone round their file leader. The instinct of self preservation no doubt sug gested to them that precaution which presents the greatest obsta cles to the hunter; but all that ruse does not preserve them from the shot of the enemy; it has made him only more skillful.
In the regions where, as in the Shenandoah Valley, squirrels are very numerous, they are hunted without dogs; but if you want to kill a great number of them, you must get up early in the morn ing and wait for them to return from their nightly wanderings.
There are three species of squirrels, the first differs from the one we know in France only in that it is smaller, and the Amer icans call the members of this group Fox-Squirrel; the second, smaller, has grey fur; the third still smaller, but of the same color, is that of the flying squirrels: the latter have two mem branes which they spread out when they spring from one tree to another. The flesh of the grey squirrels is white and tender: they are roasted and seasoned with cream sauce: the furriers buy their skins.
p. 96
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I never meet a man — unless he is quite old — that he is not whistling ; and the women sing from morning till night. And as to dancing, the hardest day’s work does not restrain their desire to indulge in such pastime.
Swallow Barn pp. 454
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116. The Old Plantation. Courtesy of the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Center, Williamsburg, Va.
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I never met a negro man — unless he is quite old — that he is not whistling;
117. Georgia Geechee Gullah Ring Shouters
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and the women sing from morning till night.
118. Self-Portrait by Eastman Johnson 1865 – Brooklyn Museum
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And as to dancing, the hardest day’s work does not restrain their desire to indulge in such pastime.
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They are great sportsmen, too.
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They angle and haul the seine, and hunt and tend their traps, with a zest that never grows weary.
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Their gayety of heart is constitutional and perennial, and when they are together they are as voluble and noisy. birds. In short, I think them the most good-natured, and happily-constructed human beings I have ever seen.
Swallow Barn
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During the harvest, when their toil is pushed to its utmost, they dance almost the whole night. – Swallow Barn pp. 454-455
119. sunrise over wheat field
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120. Men Harvesting Grain with Scythes
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121. John Pendleton Kennedy, C.1825
by Philip Tilyard
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JPK – wrote of life at The Bower that I know well. I have seen that they are also great sportsmen, too.
122. Mending the Net 1882 by Thomas Eakins
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1882 Mending the Net
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They angle and haul the seine, and hunt and tend their traps,
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123. possum
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with a zest that never grows weary.
124. The Dancing Boy – 1878 by Thomas Eakins
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Their gaiety of heart is constitutional and perennial, and when they are together they are voluble and noisy. In short, I think them the most good-natured, and happily-constructed human beings I have ever seen.
125. Uncle Tom and Little Eva by Edwin Longsden Long – 1866 Russell-Cotes Art Gallery & Museum, Bournemouth
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INSERT PAULING
DEAR FRANK,
126.
The Banjo Lesson 1893 by Henry Ossawa Tanner
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They are by far the most musical of any portion of the inhabitants of the United States, and in the evening I have seen them reclining in their boats on the canal at Richmond, playing on the banjo, and singing in a style — I dare say, equal to a Venetian Gondolier.
Then they whistle as clear as the notes of the fife and their laugh is the very echo of hilarity.
Paulding, James Kirke. (1817) "Letters from the South, written during an excursion in the summer of 1816." New York, Published by James Eastburn & co.
p. 118
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They are by far the most musical of any portion of the inhabitants of the United States, and in the evening I have seen them playing on the banjo, and singing in a style — I dare say, equal to a Venetian Gondolier.
127. African American man singing
New Light Temple Baptist Church (Pittsburgh, PA) Jubilee Choir 1997 – youtube.com
20:08 over image 128 to 20:15
The Best Singing Gondolier at the Venetian, Las Vegas – Tino!
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128. Venetian
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129. James Kirke Paulding
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Then they whistle as clear as the notes of the fife ;
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20:20 – fife by Kellerman and whistle by Bobbe McFerren over images 130-131 to 20:58
130.
Irish Hornpipes – Wouter Kellerman on Fife – The Live Sessions (Part 1)
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131
DontWorryBeHappy #Vevo
Bobby McFerrin – Don’t Worry Be Happy (Official Video)
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20:58 – people laughing over images 132-133 to 21:19
Black People Laughing | Try Not To Laugh Challenge
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132. James Kirke Paulding
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and their laugh is the very echo of hilarity.
133. Four Studies of the Head of a Negro (black) by Peter Paul Rubens
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21:25 – Shana Aisenberg banjo over images 133-141 to 22:35
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and their laugh is the very echo of hilarity.
END PAULDING
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He will make himself happy in the traps that have been laid for him; he will roll in their nets and sleep. All doors will fly open to him
134. Jacob Jordaens, Study of a Black Man’s Head (ca. 1620). Medium and size unknown. Formerly New York, Estate of Jacob Goldschmidt; present location unknown
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Black tronies in seventeenth-centur y Flemish ar t and the African presence
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who has a mildness more defiant than mere courage.
135. Barroom Dancing by John Lewis Krimmel – 1828 –
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He will be always "taken in." To be taken in everywhere is to see
136. The Banjo Lesson 1893 by Henry Ossawa Tannerwikiart.org
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the inside of everything.
SOURCE on the greenhorn
G.K. Chesterton Pick Papers notes
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137. Thoughts of Liberia – Emancipation by Edward White 1861 – New York Historical Society
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137a. You sang
137b. away
137c. being owned
You sang away being owned
138. Four Studies of the Head of a Negro by Peter Paul Rubens
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139 Four Studies of the Head of a Negro by Peter Paul Rubens
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140 Georgia Geechee Gullah Ring Shouters
Plantation Dance ring shout (3 still images)
mhenrystl Georgia Geechee Gullah Ring Shouters
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141 full moon
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JPK
Their fondness for music and dancing is a predominant passion. I never meet a negro man — unless he is quite old — that he is not whistling ; and the women sing from morning till night. And as to dancing, the hardest day’s work does not restrain their desire to indulge in such pastime. During the harvest, when their toil is pushed to its utmost — the time being one of recognized privileges — they dance almost the whole night. They are great sportsmen, too. They angle and haul the seine, and hunt and tend their traps, with a zest that never grows weary. Their gayety of heart is constitutional and perennial, and when they are together they are voluble and noisy. In short, I think them the most good-natured, careless, light-hearted, and happily-constructed human beings I have ever seen.
Swallow Barn pp. 454
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CHAPTER 11 – A Year’s Work in 1850 by Jim Surkamp
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22:45 – FX sound of overseer’s tin trumpet over images 142 and 142a to 23:01
Slave Horn – A History of Kentucky in 25 Objects KET – Kentucky Educational Television
:31 sound
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22:45 – FX full summer night sounds over images 142-142b to 23:07
142. Tin Horn 12 Years a Slave movie
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142a. Bower field and horse – Jim Surkamp
142b. Sunrise on wheat field
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23:03 – FX sharpening scythes over images 142b and 143 to 23:15
23:14 – cutting wheat with scythes over image 143 to 23:55
23:22 – Rosie work song over image 143 to 23:59
Alan Lomax, Negro Prison & Blues Songs Rosie
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143. Men Harvesting Grain with Scythes
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23:59 – Shana Aisenberg on mandolin over images 144-153 to 25:53.
144a. 1850 Poor Richard’s Almanac
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144b. Farmers Nooning by William Sidney Mount – 1836
Long Island Museum (United States – Stony Brook, Long Island, New York)
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24:09 – FX ravens over image 145 to 24:20
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146. Corn Husking by Eastman Johnson – 1860
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147. Charleston Vegetable Woman by William Aiken Walker
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148b. A patent of nobility by David Hunter Strother –
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149. The Sower by Jean-François Millet – 1850 Museum of Fine Arts – Gift of Quincy Adams Shaw through Quincy Adams Shaw, Jr., and Mrs. Marian Shaw Haughton
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25:14 – FX barking dog over image 150 to 25:18
150a. Cider_Colonial-Press_Retouched
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150b. Campfire
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150c. apple in palm of dark hand
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25:18 – squealing hogs over image 151 to 25:26.
151a. Catching Hogs by David Hunter Strother 1857 – West Virginia and Regional History Center accession number (W1995.030.004)
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151b. Smoked Ham at the Bonnie Crest Inn, North Carolina by William Aiken Walker – 1886
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152b. (center) “JENNY . . .A GOOD SPINSTER”
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152a. winding yarn by David H. Strother, Harper’s (Aug., 1856)
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152c. Lock’s Old Stephen. by D.H. Strother – 1845. Martinsburg Va. (P.95.30.391pg19)
West Virginia and Regional History Center David Hunter Strother, Artist, Artwork and Papers Series
252. CF3
Image by Jim Surkamp
VIDEO: The Bower and its Families Part 3
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The Bower and its Families Part 2 (with bibliography)
Made possible with the generous, community-minded support of American Public University System (apus.edu). This video and all videos in this channel as well as the million words of posts at the corresponding source, civilwarscholars.com – are intended to encourage fact-based discussion to heighten better understanding of the foundational events of our country. Sentiments included in these productions, even if commendable, do not in any way reflect the 21st century policies of the University.
This is the third of about four videos.
I am working with Charles Fox, whose family descended from the remarkable John H. Fox, the owner/operator of three different farms and community leader, revered upon his death and who was born enslaved at the Bower.
I was absorbed in the question of how could and why did those enslaved sang,laughed and danced and even stayed up without sleeping and still working long days in the fields. And yes it is true as a consistent fact of life in Virginia in the early 19th century. I found the same observations in five different diaries in this immediate region. And I came to realize a great truth in this fact which will be explored in the third video. We have been served terribly with descriptions of enslaved peersons as being "child-like and pathetic" ignoring the obvious reality that they received their almost superhuman strength coming from their faith and African musical tradition. That African Americans routinely become the best in any athletic field they enter and the worldwide influence of their musical talents – gospel blues swing jazz motown etc. just underscore these earlier daily practices so long ago.
Glamorous and famous for its visitors (Washington Irving, Robert E. Lee, Jeb Stuart’s entire staff lived there for a month), the pre-Civil War owners practiced people-owning on a large scale – usually about sixty enslaved persons who kept up production there from day to day. A close reading of daily accounts reveals just how much the deepest, knowledge of hunting, cooking, horses etc resided in the most experienced persons of color.
It became famous as the place John Pendleton Kennedy, a relative from Baltimore who also supported Edgar Allan Poe, based his widely read book: "Swallow Barn: A Sojourn in the Old Dominion," that was published in 1832 and 1850.
It was a divided family, with regard to the Civil War, with author Kennedy opposing secession, the Dandridges at the Bower strongly supporting, or as Philip Kennedy put it – Adam Dandridge ate a strong "allowance of the insane root" to quote from Macbeth.
It might include a tragic love story. When John Fox was born in 1845 Adam Stephen Dandridge II was the only adult white male at The Bower.
It circles around Adam Dandridge II and Charles Fox’s great great grandmother "Mary" who was killed at the Bower.
It also follows the incredibly impressive John Fox, one of Mary’s five surviving children and culminates with Charles Fox’s powerfully impressive, of-the-earth, wisdom-dispensing grandfather, Charles Washington Fox.
We’ll leave it at that.
Care is taken to stay consistent with all information in official records (death certificates, Census, marriage records, deeds, and wills) in addition to the Fox family oral tradition, first transmitted by John Fox, with his eye-witness knowledge.
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00: – Michael Praetorius: Dances from Terpsichore, Courante
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Michael Praetorius: Dances from Terpsichore, Courante
Voices of Music
Hanneke van Proosdij and David Tayler
Directors
Musicians (left to right)
Carla Moore, Gabrielle Wunsch, Lisa Grodin and
Maxine Nemerovski, baroque violins
Maria Caswell, baroque viola
Peter Maund, riqq
Elisabeth Reed and Tanya Tomkins, baroque cellos
Farley Pearce, violone
Hanneke van Proosdij, harpsichord
David Tayler, archlute & percussion
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Two Women with Head-Ties, Jamaica, 1808-1815 – loc.gov
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Robert Greenhow Jr., ca. 1808, Charles B. J. Févret de Saint-Mémin (French, 1770 – 1852), pastel and crayon on toned paper, 18 3/8 x 14 in. (47.9 x 35.6 cm.). Gift of Mrs. William R. Scott 98.3.3/3
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Man Smoking a Pipe, ca. 1800-1825
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4.
Mrs. Robert Greenhow Sr. (Mary Ann Willis), ca. 1808, Charles B. J. Févret de Saint-Mémin, (French, 1770 – 1852), pastel and crayon on toned paper, 19 5/8 x 13 7/8 in. (49.8 x 35.3 cm. ). Gift of Mrs. William R. Scott 98.3.1/3
vmfa.museum
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5. Tangerian Girl by José Tapiro y Baro – 1891. Dahesh Museum of Art in New York
arthistoryproject.com
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6.
Robert Greenhow Sr., ca. 1808, Charles B. J. Févret de Saint-Mémin (French, 1770 – 1852), pastel and crayon on toned paper, 19 5/8 x 14 1/8 in. (48.8 x 35.9 cm.). Gift of Mrs. William R. Scott 98.3.2/3
vmfa.museum
www.vmfa.museum/tours/audio-tours/web-tour-friend-heart-c…
7.
Absalam by SANTIAGO ARCOS Y MEGALDE
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CF3 .54 1.39 Images
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8. Title
9. Bower aerial
Google Maps
google.com/maps
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10. rear exit The Bower taken by Edwin Fitzpatrick
Jefferson County Historical Society (1991). "Between the Shenandoah & the Potomac."
Charles Town, WV: self-published. p. ADD
11. brief moving dresses no sound – Gone With the Wind (fair use)
12. Portrait of Adam Stephen Dandridge, Sr. (1782-1821) by Charles Peale Polk 1799-1800
emuseum.history.org
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13. same as 11
14. Portrait of Sarah Pendleton Dandridge (Mrs. Adam Stephen Dandridge, Sr.)(1785-1855)
by James W. Macoughtry, Jr. 1831
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15. The first quadrille at Almack’s From Recollections of Captain Gronow (1850)
pinterest.com
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16. The "Trenis" Quadrille, Plate 19 from "Le Bon Genre," 1805
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17. swirling dress
Gone With tHe Wind fair use and
18. Figure 11. A German Cotillion, Vienna, c.1825. From Scenes du Bal by Charles Henry.
regencydances.org
www.regencydances.org/paper011.php
19. Object: Le baiser deviné; Series: Le Bon Genre – 1812
britishmuseum.org
www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1866-0407-902
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2:22 – FX carriages, hooves, horses over images 24-26 to 3:23
2:24 – FX Owl frogs autumn over images 24-25 to 3:01
20. Spider’s web in the sun
21. James Kirke Paulding
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Author Government of the United States
22. Joseph of Egypt
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J. K. Paulding: I once knew a worthy old lady, who never saw or heard any thing in this World that did not put her in mind of Joseph in Egypt. Whenever any thing was told her, no matter what,
23. A pretty girl and an old woman both taking snuff. Coloured stipple engraving after L. Boilly, ca. 1827.
wellcomecollection.org INCLUDE Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
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she would take a pinch of snuff, and exclaim with a devotional air, “Ah! that puts me in mind of Joseph in Egypt.” Nobody could tell why; but so it was
*
Paulding, James Kirke. (1835). "Letters from the South By a Northern man."
New-York : Harper & brothers
p. 50 Vol 2
babel.hathitrust.org
babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uiug.30112046404643&vi…
24. TITLE James Kirke Paulding in 1816, while heading north in the Shenandoah Valley
to Martinsburg:
25. Shenandoah Valley by William Louis Sonntag, Sr. 1859–1860Virginia Historical Society
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In traversing this mountain region, one of the first things that struck me was the solemn, severe silence which prevailed every where, and only broken at distant intervals, by the note of the cock of the woods; the chirping of a ground squirrel; the crash of a falling tree, or the long echoes of the fowler’s gun, which render the silence, thus broken in upon for a moment, still more striking.
p. 116 vol 1
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26. Drawing by Garth Williams, 1953 version of Little House in the Big Woods, pg. 123
silverhomestead.com
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In many places the only traces of human agency are the incisions of the sugar maple, and the little troughs at the foot of the tree turned upside down, to wait the flowing of the sap in the spring.
Paulding Vol. 1 p. 118
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*
Begins
Paulding, James Kirke. (1817) "Letters from the South, written during an excursion in the summer of 1816." New York, Published by James Eastburn & co.
pp. 117-131
p. 121
archive.org/details/lettersfromsouth01paul/page/121/mode/1up
**
27. James Kirke Paulding
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At one of the taverns along the road, we were set down in the same room with a man, who was
28.
Eugène Pelletan by Nadar 1855–59 – Purchase, The Howard Gilman Foundation Gift and Rogers Fund,
metmuseum.org/
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an ill-looking, hard-featured, pock-marked, fellow. He was going, it seems, to Richmond.
WARNING DISTURBING ACCOUNTS OF EXTREME CRUELTY
All along the road, I made it his business to inquire where lived a man who might perhaps be tempted to sell him his slaves and when I got some half a dozen of them, I tied their hands behind their backs, and drove them three or four hundred miles, or more, bare-headed, and half naked, I gave out that they were runaway slaves I was carrying home to their masters.
On one occasion a black woman exposed this fallacy, and told the story of her being kidnapped; and (123) when I got her into a wood out of hearing, I beat her, till her back was white."
I married all the men and women I bought, because they would sell better for being man and wife !
"For many is the time I have separated wives from husbands, and husbands from wives, and parents from children ;
but then I made them amends by marrying them again as soon as I had a chance
I made one bad purchase, though," I bought a young mulatto girl, a lovely creature, — a great bargain. She had been the favourite of her master, who had lately married.
The difficulty was, to get her to go ; for she loved her master.
However, I swore most bitterly I was only going to take her to her mother at , and she went with me; though she seemed to doubt me very much.
But when she discovered at last that we were out of the State, I thought she would go mad ; and, in fact, the next night, drowned herself in the river close by.
I lost a good five hundred dollars by this foolish trick,
p. 121
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29. James Kirke Paulding
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page 120
it is seldom we see the ties of kindred or of conjugal affection, stronger than in the poor negro. He will travel twelre, fifteen, or twenty miles, to see his wife and children, after his daily
30. by Miguel Ângelo Lupi 1879. This is a couple of former slaves that accompained a portuguese aristocrat, Serpa Pinto, in his voyages through Africa
pinterest.es
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page 121
labour is over, and return in the morning to his labour again. If he obtains his liberty, he will often devote the first years of his liberty to buying their freedom; — thus setting an example of conjugal and parental affection, which the white man may indeed admire ; but, it is feared, would seldom imitate.
pp. 120-121
archive.org
archive.org/details/lettersfromsouth01paul/page/120/mode/1up
Paulding, James Kirke. (1817) "Letters from the South, written during an excursion in the summer of 1816." New York, Published by James Eastburn & co.
pp. 117-131
CF3 5.32 7.18
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Gourd Banjo and Hambone on a Mississippi Porch
Markus James – gourd banjo
Calvin Jackson – hambone
From the album "Head For The Hills" by Markus James;
As heard in the HBO film "The Immortal Life Of Henrietta Lacks" featuring Oprah Winfrey
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youtube.com
www.youtube.com/watch?v=gTKE3IaVVmA
Images 31, 32 and 34-38
The Old Plantation attributed to John Rose
Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Museum, Williamsburg, Virginia
wikipedia.org
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Old_Plantation#/media/File:Slav…
33. Bower Farm Leetown WV – Jim Surkamp
39. The Highest Bidder by Harry Roseland
encore-editions.com
www.encore-editions.com/to-the-highest-bidder-by-harry-ro…
40.The Power of Music by Wm Sidney Mount – 1847
theimaginativeconservative.org
theimaginativeconservative.org/2018/11/images-america-wil…
41. "Aunt Lucy" Hermitage – 1915
Essie Collins Matthews, Aunt Phebe, Uncle Tom and Others: Character Studies Among the Old Slaves of the South, Fifty Years After: illustrated from photographs made by the author in the cabins and on the plantations (Columbus, Ohio, 1915)
slaveryimages.org
slaveryimages.org/s/slaveryimages/item/1553
Aunt Phebe, Uncle Tom and Other, p. 104
42. Man with axe
Kennedy, John Pendleton, (1856) "Swallow barn, or, A sojourn in the Old Dominion." New York, G.P. Putnam & Company.
p. 404
hathitrust.org
babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=nyp.33433076089170&vie…
43a. Head of a Black man by Eastman Johnson – 1868
wikiart.org
www.wikiart.org/en/eastman-johnson/head-of-a-black-man-1868
43b. Frank Wagoner by D.H. Strother Harpers Feb. 1855, p. 300
babel.hathitrust.org
babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015056090080&vie…
44. The Banjo Player by Wm Sidney Mount – 1856
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theimaginativeconservative.org/2018/11/images-america-wil…
45. Swallow Barn man with pipe
Kennedy, John Pendleton, (1856) "Swallow barn, or, A sojourn in the Old Dominion." New York, G.P. Putnam & Company.
p. 448
hathitrust.org
babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=nyp.33433076089170&vie…
46a. Bill Napper by D.H. Strother 1845
P.95.30.391pg13
West Virginia and Regional History Center David Hunter Strother, Artist, Artwork and Papers Series 6. Artworks, 1833-1887, undated
archives.lib.wvu.edu
archives.lib.wvu.edu/repositories/2/archival_objects/105044
46b. detail The Power of Music by Wm Sidney Mount – 1847
theimaginativeconservative.org
theimaginativeconservative.org/2018/11/images-america-wil…
47a. “A Swedish Gentleman instructing a Negro Prince” by Carl Fredric von Breda – 1789
Karolina Kristensson, © Nordiska museet
digitaltmuseum.se
digitaltmuseum.se/011023459953/tavla
47b. cook by D.H. Strother Harpers Jan. 1856 p. 177
babel.hathitrust.org
babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015056090064&vie…
47c. Antique Martinique Merchant
www.picclick.com
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48. Shell Mound Station by D.H. Strother
P.95.30.393pg4a
West Virginia and Regional History Center David Hunter Strother, Artist, Artwork and Papers Series 6. Artworks, 1833-1887, undated
archives.lib.wvu.edu
archives.lib.wvu.edu/repositories/2/archival_objects/105044
SOURCES of given persons: names in this chapter:
First Section
Pinco – from account book of A.S.Dandridge II – Jefferson County Museum & The Mighty Myth of the Happy Plantation at civilwarscholars.com;
Carey (Swallow Barn);
Cate, Eliza, Serina, Anne and Mary (wills of Adam Stephen and his daughter, Anne Stephen Hunter),
Second Section – Source of persons’ names in the montage
Walter Dean Myers, who was born in Martinsburg, descended from the Dennis family who worked at The Bower and has become a respected author, wrote this in his book, “Now Is Your Time”:
“In 1849, Adam Stephen Dandridge II lived at The Bower and ran the plantation. His brother Philip lived nearby. When Philip needed to secure his loans, he put up part of his inheritance, which consisted of part of the Bower lands and his Africans:
‘The following slaves, the property of the said Philip P. Dandridge, now in his possession in Jefferson County, or in the custody of Dr. Gellot Hollingsworth and Samuel Hollingsworth, in the State of Louisiana, together with the increase (children) of said slaves – vis; Cato, Henny, George, Robert, John, Daniel, James, Simon, Peter, Tina, Caroline, Leah, Mary Ann and her children, Rachael, Ann, Louisa & children, Frances, Margaret, Patty, including all of the slaves of the said Philip P. Dandridge, whether named or not. . . to secure a debt of said P. P. Dandridge’ – (Myers, P. 99)
The Mighty Myth of the Happy Plantation
civilwarscholars.com/2011/06/sample-post/
interview 2002 with Jim Surkamp
civilwarscholars.com
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7:20 – Shana Aisenberg on banjo with accompaniment over images 49
49. "Mary" semblance
David Hunter Strother, Sketches of “contrabands,” enslaved African Americans who crossed into the federal lines, 1862. Courtesy of the Library of Virginia.
southernspaces.org
southernspaces.org/2010/retelling-virginias-migration-his…
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I got this from Uncle Dewey because he spoke for black history month down here. He said that somebody told the mistress there was four little foxes down there looking out the window: She got the market basket and went down ‘thought he was talking about animals.
And they were these Negro children. So of course she told the master. So he said: ‘Well just bring ‘em on up here and he put ‘em in the kitchen. And he said they would take a tub, like a foot tub, put bread in it, and milk, pour it in there and they ate with the cats and dogs under the kitchen table.
But by being at the big house, they learned to talk. They learned to read. They just learned things. When you’re ’round, you pick up – he was not back there in the field somewhere.
So, one of ’em became a preacher. One of ’em became a cook. And that one I think – we would say – like a butler. He was ssomething like – if you saw "Roots" – he was like Chicken John. And as I said, the girl, they lost trace of her. Steve went to Ohio. So they lost trace of him. And farmer John, see, he bought the oxen and he cut lumber. He was known as a lumber jacket.
And if you would read the history of St. Paul’s Church, it was John Fox – that’s my grandfather – It was George Johnson – grandfather on my mother’s side, a Carter and I think three other men – bought that piece of land where that church is. They paid for it. An’ lot of the lumber in the church John Fox gave.
50. Bertha Jones, Jefferson Co. NAACP Executive Committee
jeffcomuseumwv.pastperfectonline.com
jeffcomuseumwv.pastperfectonline.com/archive/75847923-F4F…
51. Sunday Morning in Virginia by Winslow Homer – 1877 Cincinnati Art Museum
commons.wikimedia.org
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Winslow_Homer_-_Sunday_Mo…
52a. A patent of nobility by D. H. Strother Harpers July, 1866 p. 139
babel.hathitrust.org
babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015056090353&vie…
52b
Benjamin Fox
findagrave.com
www.findagrave.com/memorial/190534275/benjamin-f-fox
53.
Humphery black child on horseback by D.H. Strother
P.95.30.390pg13
West Virginia and Regional History Center David Hunter Strother, Artist, Artwork and Papers Series 6. Artworks, 1833-1887, undated
archives.lib.wvu.edu
archives.lib.wvu.edu/repositories/2/archival_objects/105044
54.
Mary Kindling the fire by D.H. Strother Harpers Aug, 1855 p. 295
babel.hathitrust.org
babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015056090072&vie…
55.
Steve Aunt Winnie by D.F. Strother Harper’s Aug, 1856 p. 310
babel.hathitrust.org
babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015056089801&vie…
56. Bower field and horse by Jim Surkamp
57a.
(John Fox semblance) African American boy sitting by D. H. Strother – 1864
P.95.30.345
West Virginia and Regional History Center David Hunter Strother, Artist, Artwork and Papers Series 6. Artworks, 1833-1887, undated
archives.lib.wvu.edu
archives.lib.wvu.edu/repositories/2/archival_objects/105044
57b. John Henry Fox – courtesy Charles Fox
58
St. Paul’s Baptist Church
Kearneysville, WV
google.com/maps
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later
"Baltimore" tea et by D.H. Strother 1860
P.95.30.27
West Virginia and Regional History Center David Hunter Strother, Artist, Artwork and Papers Series 6. Artworks, 1833-1887, undated
archives.lib.wvu.edu
archives.lib.wvu.edu/repositories/2/archival_objects/105044
The Wood-pile by D.F. Strother Harper’s Aug, 1856 p. 316
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for litle potatoe segment
CF 3 9:48 12.14
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Skip James- Hard Time Killin’ Floor Blues
youtube.com
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59. Bower field and horse – Jim Surkamp
60. TITLE
**
In 1754, the New Light Baptists, led by Shubal Stearns, came down from Connecticut, crossed into Virginia at the Opequon & clashed head-on with the Episcopal Church – the State religion.
10:08 – "Deliver" New Light Baptist Church of Pittsburgh over images 61-80 to 12:16
starts at 1:52-5:09
New Light Temple Baptist Church (Pittsburgh, PA) Jubilee Choir 1997
youtube.com
www.youtube.com/watch?v=StiBu3Dla74
61 TITLE
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The children of Africa down through the Shenandoah Valley got it at once. They had every day sung and beat the beat for thousands of years.
62. TITLE
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On farms and plantations, they inhabited their Inner Kingdom and together invented and sang out Truth in the Lion’s den. But using these newly learned Biblical stories, they confounded the Lion.
63-80 New Light Temple Baptist Church (Pittsburgh, PA) Jubilee Choir 1997
CF3 12.16 17.00
SOURCES:
"THE COLORED TROOPS AT PETERSBURG" by GEN. HENRY GODDARD THOMAS. in Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Vol. 4. New York: The Century Co.pp. 563-568
CHAPTER 22 – Manassas: The Men Become One by Jim Surkamp
civilwarscholars.com
civilwarscholars.com/2017/03/story-22-manassas-the-men-be…
CHAPTER 22: Manassas Camp – The Men Become One (from Jasper Tjhompson’s Destiny Day)
youtube.com
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hum over images 59-60 to 10:07
Skip James- Hard Time Killin’ Floor Blues
youtube.com
www.youtube.com/watch?v=UNftrsCMiQs
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81. TITLE
At any quiet moment together, one might test a tune and sing it into the silence. And the others "study" it, some adding a harmony, or the first person would make the tune or beat better. Others might join. Then more might. And a mountain would
begin to move, lifting hearts.
TITLES:
82. WITH THE U.S. COLORED TROOPS
83. 23RD INFANTRY REGIMENT
84. ON THE EVE OF THE BATTLE OF THE CRATER JULY 30, 1864
85. "STUDY-ING"
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12:56 – Soldier Song by Shana Aisenberg over images 85-92 to 13:35
13:35 – guitar by Shana Aisenberg over images 92-102 to 15:15
15:15 over images 102-104 to 17:10
86, 87, 88
[Wounded colored soldiers at Aikens Landing] taken by E. & H.T. Anthony (Firm) – [New York City : E. & H.T. Anthony Co., photographed between 1862 and 1865, printed later]
loc.gov
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Robert K. Beecham, James Douglas, Voghl Foster, George Kellum, John H. Simms, George W. Taylor, Uriah Perry, Perry Smith, James Smith, William H. Chandler,
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Adam C. Liscomb, Charles Walker, Henry Yates, George H. Briscoe, Peter Churchwell, Zelotis Fessenden, Noble A. Stewart, John W. Thomas, Francis Tucker, Abraham Tuxon, Basil Tyler, Richard Saunders, Alexander Savoy
89.
Musical notation of Soldier Song by Maj. Gen. Henry Thomas
p. 564
archive.org/stream/battlesleadersof04cent#page/564/mode/1up
90. Head of a Man (Ira Frederick Aldridge) by John P. Simpson
tate.org.uk
www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/simpson-head-of-a-man-ira-fr…
dual
91. Maj. Gen Henry Thomas
p. 565
archive.org/stream/battlesleadersof04cent#page/565/mode/1up
92.
Drawing by Ward S. Day, 5th New York, Company C
93.
News from home by Edwin Forbes – Sept. 30, 1863
loc.gov
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Strolling often around the camp their commander Henry G. Thomas observed later:
Any striking event or piece of news was usually eagerly discussed by the white troops, and in the ranks military critics were as plenty and perhaps more voluble than among the officers.
94. & 95.
[Wounded colored soldiers at Aikens Landing] taken by E. & H.T. Anthony (Firm) – [New York City : E. & H.T. Anthony Co., photographed between 1862 and 1865, printed later]
loc.gov
www.loc.gov/item/98500957/
Not so with the blacks; important news was usually followed by long silence. They sat about in groups, “studying,” as they called it. They waited, like the Quakers, for the spirit to move; when the spirit moved,
96.
Head of a Man (Ira Frederick Aldridge) by John P. Simpson
tate.org.uk
www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/simpson-head-of-a-man-ira-fr…
one of their singers would uplift a mighty voice, like a bard of old, in a wild sort of chant. If he did not strike a sympathetic chord in his hearers,
97 & 98
[Wounded colored soldiers at Aikens Landing] taken by E. & H.T. Anthony (Firm) – [New York City : E. & H.T. Anthony Co., photographed between 1862 and 1865, printed later]
loc.gov
www.loc.gov/item/98500957/
if they did not find in his utterance the exponent of their idea, he would sing it again and again, altering sometimes the words, more often the music. If his changes met general acceptance, one voice after another would chime in; a rough harmony of three parts would add itself;
99. 26th United States Colored Volunteer Inf. at Camp William Penn, 1865
archives.gov
www.archives.gov/files/research/military/civil-war/photos…
other groups would join his, and the song would become the song of the command.
100.
Camp Fire by Winslow Homer 1880
metmuseum.org
www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/11112
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One evening Thomas saw this act of creation and wrote down its core.
The joyous guffaw always breaking out about the camp-fire ceased. They formed circles in their company streets and were sitting on the ground intently and solemnly “studying.” At last a heavy voice began to sing,
“We-e looks li-ike we-en a-a-marchin’ on, We looks li-ike men-er-war.”
dual
101
Head of a Man (Ira Frederick Aldridge) by John P. Simpson
tate.org.uk
www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/simpson-head-of-a-man-ira-fr…
102
Camp Fire by Winslow Homer 1880
metmuseum.org
www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/11112
Over and over again he sang it, making slight changes in the melody. The rest listened to him intently; no sign of approval or disapproval escaped their lips or appeared on their faces. All at once, when his refrain had struck the right response in their hearts, his group took it up, and shortly half a thousand voices were upraised extemporizing a half dissonant middle part and bass. It was a picturesque scene these dark men, with their white eyes and teeth and full red lips, crouching over a smoldering camp-fire, in dusky shadow, with only the feeble rays of the lanterns of the first sergeants and the lights of the candles dimly showing through the tents. The sound was as weird as the scene, when all the voices struck the low E (last note but one), held it, and then rose to A with a portamento as sonorous as it was clumsy. Until we fought the battle of the crater they sang this every night to the exclusion of all other songs.- Battles & Leaders V. 4
archive.org pp. 563-564
archive.org
archive.org/stream/battlesleadersof04cent#page/563/mode/1up
pp. 563-564
103. TITLE
www.storey.com/article/hello-darkness/
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Songs and laughter heal aching hearts, weary bones
104. Full moon
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17:11 FX owls, frogs/frog chorus/summer night ambience insects, crickets over images 104-
109 to 17:43
104. full moon
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105.
3 AM July 23rd 1850, a full moon
106.
"The Quarter" of A.S. Dandridge – Leetown, then Va.
107.
The morning of the wheat harvest . . .
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17:27 – hambone and gourd banjo over images 108-118 to 19:10
From the album "Head For The Hills" by Markus James
Markus James – gourd banjo
Calvin Jackson – hambone
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17:33 black laughing over images 108-111 to 17:58
Black People Laughing | Try Not To Laugh Challenge
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108.
As usual, cabins in the Quarter vibrated most of the night with song, dance, and laughter around their fires.
109.
Traveling diarists across Virginia reported for decades that the black workers were incredibly fit, slept little,
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17:44 – FX fire burning, wood crackle over images 110-118 to 19:10
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sharing the wee hours in a joyous, private world.
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110. Camp Fire by Winslow Homer 1880
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clockwise begin lower vieer’s right"
110a. & 110b.
Negro Life at the South by Eastman Johnson – 1859 New-York Historical Society, The Robert L. Stuart Collection
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110b. Kitchen at Mount Vernon by Eastman Johnson – 1864 – Mount Vernon
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110c. Dinah by Eastman Johnson – 1867 Gibbes Museum of Art
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110d., 110e., 110f. Georgia Geechee Gullah Ring Shouters
Plantation Dance ring shout (3 still images)
mhenrystl Georgia Geechee Gullah Ring Shouters
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110g. Four Studies of the Head of a Negro by Peter Paul Rubens – 1615 Royal Museum of Fine Arts of Belgium
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110h. Uncle Tom and Little Eva by Edwin Long 1866 – Russell-Cotes Art Gallery & Museum
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110i. Head of a Moor by Peter Paul Rubens – 1620 – Hyde Collection
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110j. Negro Life at the South by Eastman Johnson – 1859 New-York Historical Society, The Robert L. Stuart Collection
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111. Camp Fire by Winslow Homer 1880
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112. Camp Fire by Winslow Homer 1880
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113. (Same as 110)
begin Bayard
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At four o’clock in the morning smoke was still rising from the huts of the negroes. They have fire during the entire night, and in the hottest season. Often, instead of sleeping, they smoke, sing or converse, without that loss of sleep affecting them.
114. Dance in Congo Square in the late 18th century, artist’s conception by E. W. Kemble from a century later
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Almost all of them, after a night devoted to pleasure, can take up their labor without
115. Carolus-Duran, l’homme endormi, 1861, hst
Musée des beaux-arts de Lille visite du 3 juin 2009 © gaelle kermen 2009
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experiencing that weariness that a white man would feel who had been deprived of his rest.
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CHAPTER XXVII
at four o’clock in the morning smoke was still rising from the huts of the negroes
They have fire during the entire night, and in the hottest season. Often, instead of sleeping, they smoke, sing or converse, without that loss of sleep affecting them. Almost all of them, after a night devoted to pleasure, can take up their labor without experiencing that weariness that a white man would feel who had been deprived of his rest.
Bayard, Ferdinand Marie, (1950). "Travels of a Frenchman in Maryland and Virginia,
with a description of Philadelphia and Baltimore, in 1791: or, Travels in the interior of the United States, to Bath, Winchester, in the valley of the Shenandoah, etc., etc., during the summer of 1791." Translated by Ben C. McCary. An Arbor, MU: Edwards Brothers.
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CHAPTER XXVII
I set out at four o’clock in the morning in order to be able to be on the mountains before the sun was too high. A light fog cov ered the valley like a transparent veil, and through which appeared the tree tops, the houses of the planters, as well as the huts of the Negroes, from which smoke was still rising. The slaves have fire during the entire night, and in the hottest season. Often, instead of sleeping, they smoke, sing or converse, without that loss of sleep affecting them. Almost all of them, after a night devoted to pleas ure, can take up their labor without experiencing that weariness that a white man would feel who had been deprived of his rest.
I found the squirrels wide awake. They were climbing with agility in the largest oaks, taking the precaution to keep the entire thickness of the body of the tree between them and me, whom they looked at from time to time to be sure that I had not gone round their file leader. The instinct of self preservation no doubt sug gested to them that precaution which presents the greatest obsta cles to the hunter; but all that ruse does not preserve them from the shot of the enemy; it has made him only more skillful.
In the regions where, as in the Shenandoah Valley, squirrels are very numerous, they are hunted without dogs; but if you want to kill a great number of them, you must get up early in the morn ing and wait for them to return from their nightly wanderings.
There are three species of squirrels, the first differs from the one we know in France only in that it is smaller, and the Amer icans call the members of this group Fox-Squirrel; the second, smaller, has grey fur; the third still smaller, but of the same color, is that of the flying squirrels: the latter have two mem branes which they spread out when they spring from one tree to another. The flesh of the grey squirrels is white and tender: they are roasted and seasoned with cream sauce: the furriers buy their skins.
p. 96
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I never meet a man — unless he is quite old — that he is not whistling ; and the women sing from morning till night. And as to dancing, the hardest day’s work does not restrain their desire to indulge in such pastime.
Swallow Barn pp. 454
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116. The Old Plantation. Courtesy of the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Center, Williamsburg, Va.
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I never met a negro man — unless he is quite old — that he is not whistling;
117. Georgia Geechee Gullah Ring Shouters
Plantation Dance ring shout – youtube.com
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and the women sing from morning till night.
118. Self-Portrait by Eastman Johnson 1865 – Brooklyn Museum
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And as to dancing, the hardest day’s work does not restrain their desire to indulge in such pastime.
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19:10 – FX cockrell crow over image 119 to 19:12
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They are great sportsmen, too.
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They angle and haul the seine, and hunt and tend their traps, with a zest that never grows weary.
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Their gayety of heart is constitutional and perennial, and when they are together they are as voluble and noisy. birds. In short, I think them the most good-natured, and happily-constructed human beings I have ever seen.
Swallow Barn
pp. 454-455
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During the harvest, when their toil is pushed to its utmost, they dance almost the whole night. – Swallow Barn pp. 454-455
119. sunrise over wheat field
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19:14 – scythe cutting wheat over images 120-121 to 19:27
120. Men Harvesting Grain with Scythes
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121. John Pendleton Kennedy, C.1825
by Philip Tilyard
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JPK – wrote of life at The Bower that I know well. I have seen that they are also great sportsmen, too.
122. Mending the Net 1882 by Thomas Eakins
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1882 Mending the Net
watercolour
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They angle and haul the seine, and hunt and tend their traps,
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19:37 – Shana Aisenberg banjo over images 123-128
123. possum
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with a zest that never grows weary.
124. The Dancing Boy – 1878 by Thomas Eakins
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Their gaiety of heart is constitutional and perennial, and when they are together they are voluble and noisy. In short, I think them the most good-natured, and happily-constructed human beings I have ever seen.
125. Uncle Tom and Little Eva by Edwin Longsden Long – 1866 Russell-Cotes Art Gallery & Museum, Bournemouth
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INSERT PAULING
DEAR FRANK,
126.
The Banjo Lesson 1893 by Henry Ossawa Tanner
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They are by far the most musical of any portion of the inhabitants of the United States, and in the evening I have seen them reclining in their boats on the canal at Richmond, playing on the banjo, and singing in a style — I dare say, equal to a Venetian Gondolier.
Then they whistle as clear as the notes of the fife and their laugh is the very echo of hilarity.
Paulding, James Kirke. (1817) "Letters from the South, written during an excursion in the summer of 1816." New York, Published by James Eastburn & co.
p. 118
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They are by far the most musical of any portion of the inhabitants of the United States, and in the evening I have seen them playing on the banjo, and singing in a style — I dare say, equal to a Venetian Gondolier.
127. African American man singing
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20:08 over image 128 to 20:15
The Best Singing Gondolier at the Venetian, Las Vegas – Tino!
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128. Venetian
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129. James Kirke Paulding
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Then they whistle as clear as the notes of the fife ;
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20:20 – fife by Kellerman and whistle by Bobbe McFerren over images 130-131 to 20:58
130.
Irish Hornpipes – Wouter Kellerman on Fife – The Live Sessions (Part 1)
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131
DontWorryBeHappy #Vevo
Bobby McFerrin – Don’t Worry Be Happy (Official Video)
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20:58 – people laughing over images 132-133 to 21:19
Black People Laughing | Try Not To Laugh Challenge
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132. James Kirke Paulding
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and their laugh is the very echo of hilarity.
133. Four Studies of the Head of a Negro (black) by Peter Paul Rubens
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21:25 – Shana Aisenberg banjo over images 133-141 to 22:35
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and their laugh is the very echo of hilarity.
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He will make himself happy in the traps that have been laid for him; he will roll in their nets and sleep. All doors will fly open to him
134. Jacob Jordaens, Study of a Black Man’s Head (ca. 1620). Medium and size unknown. Formerly New York, Estate of Jacob Goldschmidt; present location unknown
OTHER SOURCE OF ART AFRICAN
Black tronies in seventeenth-centur y Flemish ar t and the African presence
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who has a mildness more defiant than mere courage.
135. Barroom Dancing by John Lewis Krimmel – 1828 –
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He will be always "taken in." To be taken in everywhere is to see
136. The Banjo Lesson 1893 by Henry Ossawa Tannerwikiart.org
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the inside of everything.
SOURCE on the greenhorn
G.K. Chesterton Pick Papers notes
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137. Thoughts of Liberia – Emancipation by Edward White 1861 – New York Historical Society
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137a. You sang
137b. away
137c. being owned
You sang away being owned
138. Four Studies of the Head of a Negro by Peter Paul Rubens
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139 Four Studies of the Head of a Negro by Peter Paul Rubens
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140 Georgia Geechee Gullah Ring Shouters
Plantation Dance ring shout (3 still images)
mhenrystl Georgia Geechee Gullah Ring Shouters
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141 full moon
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JPK
Their fondness for music and dancing is a predominant passion. I never meet a negro man — unless he is quite old — that he is not whistling ; and the women sing from morning till night. And as to dancing, the hardest day’s work does not restrain their desire to indulge in such pastime. During the harvest, when their toil is pushed to its utmost — the time being one of recognized privileges — they dance almost the whole night. They are great sportsmen, too. They angle and haul the seine, and hunt and tend their traps, with a zest that never grows weary. Their gayety of heart is constitutional and perennial, and when they are together they are voluble and noisy. In short, I think them the most good-natured, careless, light-hearted, and happily-constructed human beings I have ever seen.
Swallow Barn pp. 454
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CF3 22.45 25.53
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CHAPTER 11 – A Year’s Work in 1850 by Jim Surkamp
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22:45 – FX sound of overseer’s tin trumpet over images 142 and 142a to 23:01
Slave Horn – A History of Kentucky in 25 Objects KET – Kentucky Educational Television
:31 sound
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22:45 – FX full summer night sounds over images 142-142b to 23:07
142. Tin Horn 12 Years a Slave movie
142b.
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142a. Bower field and horse – Jim Surkamp
142b. Sunrise on wheat field
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23:03 – FX sharpening scythes over images 142b and 143 to 23:15
23:14 – cutting wheat with scythes over image 143 to 23:55
23:22 – Rosie work song over image 143 to 23:59
Alan Lomax, Negro Prison & Blues Songs Rosie
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143. Men Harvesting Grain with Scythes
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23:59 – Shana Aisenberg on mandolin over images 144-153 to 25:53.
144a. 1850 Poor Richard’s Almanac
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144b. Farmers Nooning by William Sidney Mount – 1836
Long Island Museum (United States – Stony Brook, Long Island, New York)
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24:09 – FX ravens over image 145 to 24:20
145. Stacking wheat by Edwin Forbes. – 1863 loc.gov
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146. Corn Husking by Eastman Johnson – 1860
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147. Charleston Vegetable Woman by William Aiken Walker
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24:49 – FX chopping wood over images 148 to 25:00
148a. Rural Scene by Louis Maurer – 1856 commons.wikimedia.org
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148b. A patent of nobility by David Hunter Strother –
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149. The Sower by Jean-François Millet – 1850 Museum of Fine Arts – Gift of Quincy Adams Shaw through Quincy Adams Shaw, Jr., and Mrs. Marian Shaw Haughton
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25:14 – FX barking dog over image 150 to 25:18
150a. Cider_Colonial-Press_Retouched
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150b. Campfire
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150c. apple in palm of dark hand
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25:18 – squealing hogs over image 151 to 25:26.
151a. Catching Hogs by David Hunter Strother 1857 – West Virginia and Regional History Center accession number (W1995.030.004)
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151b. Smoked Ham at the Bonnie Crest Inn, North Carolina by William Aiken Walker – 1886
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152b. (center) “JENNY . . .A GOOD SPINSTER”
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152a. winding yarn by David H. Strother, Harper’s (Aug., 1856)
p. 309
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152c. Lock’s Old Stephen. by D.H. Strother – 1845. Martinsburg Va. (P.95.30.391pg19)
West Virginia and Regional History Center David Hunter Strother, Artist, Artwork and Papers Series
First course
A few nice family meals images I found:
First course
Image by dejahthoris
Freshly salted salmon, pickled herrings and rosolli (cold boiled vegetables cubed).
年越蕎麦
Image by CookieM
the soba noodles eaten on New Year’s Eve
Dinner
Image by goforchris
Superb, as always
Cool Barbecue Foods images
A few nice barbecue foods images I found:
prime rib roast.
Image by Marntzu cook
Homemade rib roast
Image by ^Sandra^
Gochujang Pork in Little Gem Lettuce
Image by Girl Interrupted Eating
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