In Clarke's neighborhood, like many others, intimate relations beyond those grounds could be unhappy affairs. Slaveholders in the neighborhood determined the outer limits of propriety in discipline, not that such limits did the slaves ...
Their first stop was the kitchen, where they paid their respects to More and Robbins. Guests chatted brightly—anxiously, too, when the slave preacher failed to appear at the appointed hour. Fiddlers were present, but the congregation ...
[93] Berlin, Reidy, and Rowland, Black Military Experience, 433–42. [94] U.S. War Department, Revised United States Army Regulations (Philadelphia: Childs, 1863), 131, 486–87, 501–2; Caesar Gordon alias Kearney, Deposition, ...
See Anthony S. Parent Jr., Foul Means: The Formation of a Slave Society in Virginia, 1660–1740 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2003), 147–62. [11] John W. Blassingame, ed., Slave Testimony: Two Centuries of Letters, ...
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