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|Year=1805 | |||
|Year Number=6 | |||
|Headline=In SC, Some Slaves Use Sundays for Ballplaying | |Headline=In SC, Some Slaves Use Sundays for Ballplaying | ||
|Salience=2 | |Salience=2 | ||
|Location=South | |Tags=African Americans, | ||
| | |Location=US South | ||
|Text=<p>"The negroes when not hurried have this day [Sunday] for amusement & great numbers are seen about, some playing ball, some with things for sale & some dressed up going to meeting." </p> | |Country=United States | ||
<p>Edward Hooker, Diaries, 1805-1830: MS 72876 and 72877, Connecticut Historical Society, Hartford CT; per Thomas L. Altherr, "Chucking the Old Apple: Recent Discoveries of Pre-1840 North American Ball Games," < | |Coordinates=34.0007104, -81.0348144 | ||
|State=SC | |||
|City=Columbia | |||
|Text=<p>"The negroes when not hurried have this day [Sunday] for amusement & great numbers are seen about, some playing ball, some with things for sale & some dressed up going to meeting." -- Edward Hooker</p> | |||
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|Sources=<p>Edward Hooker, Diaries, 1805-1830: MS 72876 and 72877, Connecticut Historical Society, Hartford CT; per Thomas L. Altherr, "Chucking the Old Apple: Recent Discoveries of Pre-1840 North American Ball Games," <span>Base Ball</span>, Volume 2, number 1 (Spring 2008), pages 29-30. Tom [ibid, page 29] describes Hooker as a recent Yale graduate who in 1805 was a newly-arrived tutor in Columbia, SC. </p> | |||
|Comment=<p>Tom Altherr says "this may be the first recorded evidence of slaves [see p29/30] playing ball.</p> | |||
|Query=<p>How about the evidence in [[1797.5]]?</p> | |||
|Reviewed=Yes | |Reviewed=Yes | ||
|Has Supplemental Text=No | |||
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In SC, Some Slaves Use Sundays for Ballplaying
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City/State/Country: | Columbia, SC, United States |
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Text | "The negroes when not hurried have this day [Sunday] for amusement & great numbers are seen about, some playing ball, some with things for sale & some dressed up going to meeting." -- Edward Hooker
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Sources | Edward Hooker, Diaries, 1805-1830: MS 72876 and 72877, Connecticut Historical Society, Hartford CT; per Thomas L. Altherr, "Chucking the Old Apple: Recent Discoveries of Pre-1840 North American Ball Games," Base Ball, Volume 2, number 1 (Spring 2008), pages 29-30. Tom [ibid, page 29] describes Hooker as a recent Yale graduate who in 1805 was a newly-arrived tutor in Columbia, SC. |
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