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MG-B(D.776.006
2 Apr 1776:23 (1/49)
We hear that Lord Dunmore's Royal Regiment of Black
Fusiliers is already recruited, with runaway and stolen
Negroes, to the formidable number of 80 effective men, who,
after doing the drudgery of the day (such as acting as
scullions, &c. on board the fleet) are ordered upon deck to
perform the military exercise; and, to comply with their
native warlike genius, instead of the drowsy drum and fife,
will be gratified with the use of the sprightly and
enlivening barrafoo, an instrument peculiarly adapted to the
martial tune of "Hungry Niger, parch'd corn!" and which from
henceforth is to be styled, by way of eminence, the
Blackbird March.
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