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Slaves in Delawai‘e O~~~ty
Rosa Barber


her ra~ dolls, or a ball of yarn, if there hatpened to be enou~ht of old string to make one. Any toy or plaything via~ allowed that did not point toward book—knowledge. Nursery rhymes and folk~lore stories were censured seve~ly and had to be confined to events that conveyed ne upl~.ft, culture or propaganda, or that conveyed no knovi1ed~e, directly ~y indirectly. Especially did they bar the mental polishing of tbe ~hree R‘s. • They could not prevent the vobalizing of music in the fields and tiie slaves found consolation there in pouring out theIr souls in unison with the songs of the birds.