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Singing Slaves
Volume 1, entries 86. Source context: SPIRITS → GHOSTLORE. Entries listed under this heading in the source volume.
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Entry 86
There was a whipping post at the Bloody Angle before the [Civil] War. Slaves were sometimes whipped to death there and they would come back singing. It was about a mile from Spotsylvania Court House. [Informant, thirteen years old when Civil War began, was born in what became the Bloody Angle during battles of Spotsylvania Court House, May 8-21, 1864; battle at Bloody Angle, May 12.]