Professor @ USC. I write about African American life in early national and antebellum Boston.
My posts are my own opinions and do not reflect those of my employer.
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Clothing historians: Does anyone know what 'elastic trowsers' might mean in 1799, because when I look at this receipt, all I can see in my mind is Blackadder's Prince George! 🗃️
I’m terribly sad to hear of Gordon Wood’s death. Just awful news. People will rightly remember his books, esp. Creation of the Am Republic and Radicalism of the Am Rev, but he was also a great essayist: ‘Conspiracy & the Paranoid Style’ from WMQ struck me when I read it first as basically perfect.
Did you see this thread, @drbibliomane.bsky.social? It seems right up your alley!
Cats are the only species who can show the world their buttholes and still appear unambiguously demure . . .
This chonky boi is a single court case & I’m not sure whether I was more relieved or disappointed to find find it had no bearing on my project. I found several amazing, but slimmer, cases today, tho, incl one in which an African American was appointed sole executor of a white man’s will in 1814 🗃️
Literary materials appear in C19 court records all the time: a poem written on the back of a list of stolen goods found after execution of a search warrant; a fragment of a hymn used as a bookmark in a docket book; an invitation to a Library Society meeting used as a band for criminal indictments 🗃️
I understand why library professionals bristle at the term ‘dusty archives’: most collections are lovingly conserved, cataloged, and curated with an eye to long term preservation. The materials I looked at this morning, though, were filthy! I scrubbed my hands many, many times when done! 🗃️
Doodle on Tucker v Denny (1820). Not sure which of them it’s meant to be. Bonus snap of Chester the Archive Dog. A long but solid day of research!
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An apricat for every mood! 🍑
