Extract from Memoirs of a Monticello Slave
He kept three fiddles: played in the arternoons & sometimes arter supper. This was in his early time: When he begin to git so old he didn’t play … Mr. Jefferson always singing when ridin or walkin: hardly see him anywhar out doors but what he was a-singin: Had a fine clear voice: sung minnits (minuets) & sich; fiddled in the parlor. Old master very kind to servants.
MS (ViU). Published in Rayford W. Logan, ed., Memoirs of a Monticello Slave, as Dictated to Charles Campbell in the 1840’s by Isaac,
one of Thomas Jefferson’s Slaves (Charlottesville, 1951), 23.
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