<oai_dc:dc xmlns:oai_dc="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/ http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc.xsd"><dc:coverage>United States, Southern States, 33.346678, -84.119434</dc:coverage><dc:creator>Alberti, Ernestine Strong, 1811-</dc:creator><dc:date>1842-05-14</dc:date><dc:description>Sent from St. Mary's, Georgia to Binghamton, New York. 

Names an enslaved person, Maria. Also describes a party hosted for a young white boy, where two enslaved people played music. 

"Two negroes one with a fiddle &amp; the other with a 'Banjo,' played for them ... the negroes of the house and some of the neighboring ones, taking advantage of the music and [with] Mrs. Wooley's permission, danced the whole evening"</dc:description><dc:format>image/jp2</dc:format><dc:language>eng</dc:language><dc:rights>http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/</dc:rights><dc:subject>Slavery--Economic aspects--Southern States</dc:subject><dc:subject>Plantation owners--Georgia</dc:subject><dc:subject>Enslaved persons--Georgia</dc:subject><dc:subject>Slavery--Georgia--History</dc:subject><dc:subject>Southern States--Description and travel</dc:subject><dc:title>From Ernestine Strong Alberti to her niece and nephew -- addressed to "Mister Cyrus S. Clapp"</dc:title><dc:type>Text</dc:type></oai_dc:dc>