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BEP(F.740.002
14 Jan 1740:41 (232)
Last Friday night a gentleman of this town went over to
Roxbury to look for his Negro woman, who had been gone from
him a few days; and hearing a noise in the tavern, he went
in, (past nine o'clock) and found about a dozen black
gentry, he's and she's, in a room, in very merry humour,
singing and dancing, having a violin, and store of wine and
punch before them. They all belonged to gentlemen in this
town: And 'tis much to be wondred at, how they can be
absent from their respective families without their master's
knowledge: And 'tis yet more to be wondred at, if they
obtain their masters leave to attend these nocturnal
frolicks, which must needs be very expensive, and 'tis well
known that their own revenues are very small. Whether it be
convenient that publick houses should give entertainment to
our slaves, at all, but especially at the time of night
above-mentioned, we leave to the consideration of our
betters.
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