Batteaux and Banjos
History
A Census Analysis: Free and Slave Schedules for Buckingham County, Virginia, 1850
A Survey of Runaway Ads from Antebellum Virginia
A "The Virginia-Gentleman Fiddler," Richmond Dispatch, Wednesday, February 11, 1874 [by George William Bagby?]
A "The Banjo's Origin," Richmond Dispatch, Sunday, February 17, 1895
A The Real Old Dan Tucker: from Virginia to Georgia and a Batteau Connection in the Savannah River's "Petersburg Boats"
A Dick Parsons, the Surprising Career of a Black Batteau Captain on the James River; article "Dick Parsons: The Black Slaveholder" from The Southern Workman, February 1885.
A Foodways in Antebellum Southside Virginia and Guidelines for Meals at Batteaux and Banjos
A Two Hundred and Fifty Years on the James River: High Points in Batteau History
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