1840s—Minas Gerais, Brazil
American clergymen Kidder and Fletcher visit a plantation called “Soldade,” where a slave orchestra that includes trombones performs “an overture to some opera,” and a Latin mass “with admirable skill and precision.”
American clergymen Kidder and Fletcher visit a plantation called “Soldade,” where a slave orchestra that includes trombones performs “an overture to some opera,” and a Latin mass “with admirable skill and precision.”