Samuel Mordecai, Richmond in Bygone Day (Richmond, 1856), 297.
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Title
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Samuel Mordecai, Richmond in Bygone Day (Richmond, 1856), 297.
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Includes music itself or text of song
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no
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Identity of singers; solo/group
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free?
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Voice/instrument
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voice
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voice
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Space/room
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tobacco factory
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activity
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working in a factory
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genre
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sacred music
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Geographical location
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Richmond, Virginia
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Excerpt
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It is now a tobacco factory, and its original dimensions are trebled, if not quadrupled in size. A host of blacks now work there in twisting tobacco where the sacred Host was formerly elevated by the priest. A solution of liquorice has taken the place of holy water; but possibly the establishment may be employed in the manufacture of "Christian's Comfort," a commodity already mentioned. Here also fine psalmody may be heard, as of yore, and the organ loft is still occupied by a choir, but one whose music ceases on Sabbaths and Holy days.
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Context
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Mordecai writes how there is a tobacco factory that a lot of Black Americans work at. The tobacco factory was once a church. He can often hear its workers singing psalms.