April 12, 2024
1864 Letter Teacher Slaves Singing Negro “Darkey” Songs Noyes
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1864 Letter Teacher Slaves Singing Negro “Darkey” Songs Noyes This is a wonderful 4 page handwritten letter to Catherine Noyes a young woman who went to St Helena Island, South Carolina to teach freed slaves towards the end of the Civil War. It is written from W Newton, Mass in 1864 and is from another teacher on leave from South Carolina. She says in part, William and I amused ourselves with singing all the darkey tunes we could think of. William has learned quite a number of new ones. Those that they sang to us that last Sunday in the cotton house. As we sang them it brought back the whole scene very vividly and made me really homesick for Capt John’s. It seemed as if I could see Dick sitting on the end of the bench, his hands between his knees rocking in time to the music and singing, I build my house on a sandy ledge, no mind, nor storm can shake em down. Don’t you want to hear them, come over and we will sing them to you… Check out my other items !
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