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Cheeky Actress

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  1. Now that Fall is here...the smells of this time of year are wonderfull... the smell of apple "ANYTHING" with mulled spices (nutmeg, and so on)... the smell of leaves and firewood burning... Pumpkins and popcorn.... LUV IT!!!
  2. Oh Lady B! Really?! I really liked that on you! I hope that you get top dollar for! Looks like a lot of hard work went into it.
  3. Dear JohnnyTarr, You are less than 1/2 hour from my door step. Please contact me regarding this.... Would love to meet up!
  4. Thank you Lady B! I plan to bring it with me this weekend so you can have a closure look at it!
  5. Why thank you, CBIL! Yes, I will happy to bring it along for you to inspect...perhaps a bit closer
  6. (Gulp)! Why thank you Kenneth...though, I am sure a handmaiden or perhaps someone better suited to dress me....not undress me..
  7. Well, I don't think I'll get rid of the small pad, Captain...I just need some one to dress me properly. An extra pair of hands that know what they are doing does help! Oh, but I do like you in Red, Captain! We'll just clash...as we always so ( ). I plan to bring it with me next weekend.
  8. Thank you for the kind words Black Syren.... I think I'll have to wear this mantua more often then the wool one...at least for a while. Seeing that I've spent so much time making it! I am going to wear this for Halloween (Williamsburg), that's for sure! I hope my Captain likes it...you did say you liked red, sir!
  9. Lady B, After a long night, early morning hours...a bottle of wine and pricked fingers....I'M DONE with my project. Posted in "Your Garb" section. Now you'll see why all the fuss!
  10. BriarRose, I am truly sorry to hear about your loss. My heart and prays go out to you, Dear.
  11. Thank you, my Dear Captain Sterling. Yes, lots of work. The gown is make of silk (taffeta and dupioni -sp?) and I JUST finished it...no time to press it off just yet...wanted to show off the pretties! Yes, I do plan to send it to the dry cleaners to press it (Halloween). As for the train...I am wearing a bustle pad (small) so that may be the reason for the odd laying, that and my hubby doesn't do trains. I think he got a bit confused...perhaps Rats or his good lady, Maggie can shoot a better shot of it...they have wedding experience! Yes, I do have a set of stays on...though they are front closing kind...I didn't have time for the other ones.
  12. I FINALLY completed my project. It had taken me two weeks to finish...but well worth the long nights and weekends. Here is the fashion plate that inspired me.... ...And here is the finished product...(Thank God)! The back...I had to be clever with this seeing that the fashion plate gave me very little help on this...my hubby had a bit of trouble trying to straighten the train.. The thing that drew me to this particular mantua were the colours! Try loosing me in a crowd!
  13. (GRUMBLE! GRUMBLE!)....This is the Project from Hell.... Damn! Ran out of Lace....Must do what any good sewer/customer would do at a moment such as this.... DRINK! (If I survive this...[along with my hubby], I promise photos!)
  14. Persistent! I've been working on a project for the last two weeks...and I can see the light, but Oh...why did I take this on?! I find myself working a bit then stepping away grumbling under my breath, then coming back to it... I may be able to finish it tonight...I hope!
  15. I'm sure you've heard of this tale, Matusalem. Though it parallels the same fate of the Mary Celeste – I was very surprised that it occurred so far north of the Bermuda Triangle. THE SEA BIRD- Also called the "Beach Bird" in some accounts. This ship sailed into the rocks at Newport, Rhode Island, in 1850, and was found to be completely deserted except for a dog and a cat. A fire blazed in the galley stove, a steaming kettle was on top of it, and the table was set for a meal. The odor of tobacco smoke was still strong in the crew's quarters. No trace of her human crew was ever found, and the brig itself later disappeared during a storm. The captain of the vessel was either John Durham or Huxham, depending upon the accounts. The last entry in the captain's log noted the sighting of Brenton reef several miles offshore. The crew of a fishing boat reported that they had exchanged signals with the ship in the water only two hours before she was discovered abandoned.
  16. (Lilly Jumping up and down)....Lookie - I've Struck GOLD! Preventive and punitive regulation in seventeenth-century social policy: conflicts of interest and the failure to make 'stealing and transporting Children, and other Persons' a felony,1645–73 Author: Wareing J. Source: Social History, Volume 27, Number 3, 1 September 2002 , pp. 288-308(21)
  17. More regarding "Spirits" Slavery, Servitude, and British Representations of Colonial North America by Mason, Matthew Having little Tommy sold as a slave for life also heightens the drama of his sufferings, but it accords less neatly with the realities of colonial life. Smith, still unsurpassed as a scholar of white servitude in colonial America, concluded that "there was never any such thing as perpetual slavery for any white man in any English colony. "To be sure, colonial labor recruiters abducted hundreds of white Britons. Several cases of kidnapping grabbed headlines in England, and led to legal prohibitions on the recruiting agents (known as "spirits" for their dubious and clandestine practices). Defoe wrote of a regular trade in kidnapped children from England to Virginia. Having young Tommy kidnapped off the streets of London, then, was no grand distortion on Kimber's part. But having him sold for life in Maryland did not square with the colonial racial divide: white colonists truly enslaved only people of African or Native American descent. Kimber, however, was not alone in failing to draw a line between the term of unfreedom white colonists served and the lifetime bondage black slaves suffered. Non-fictional writers Hellier, Revel, and Moraley all joined in reviling planters who treated white servants and black slaves much the same. Cook applied the word "Slave" to an indentured servant woman he met, as well as more generically to the knaves of Maryland. Defoe also used the terms "slave" and "servant" interchangeably. In Moll Flanders the heroine laments being "bound to Virginia, in the despicable quality of transported convicts destined to be sold for slaves. “He also had Colonel Jack sold and put in the field alongside slaves in Virginia. He and his fellow white servants "worked hard, lodged hard, and fared hard" in the "miserable condition of a slave. “Nor were these writers alone, for all Britons tended to talk of the spirits' victims as "slaves." A popular play produced in London in the late 1750s features a colonial agent attempting to kidnap an Irishman, who laments being sent "into the other world to be turn'd into a black negro." And a Yorkshire newspaper complained that indentured servants were sold in America "for slaves at public sale. . . They might as well fall into the hands of the Turks, [for] they are subject nearly to the same laws as the Negroes and have the same coarse food and clothing." And Another From NIAHD Journals - Suppression, Scaliwags, and Sivil Disobedience author: Katherine Mary BUSS "In the 1650’s, a river of indentured servants were sent over during the tobacco boom. Many were the scum of England; several criminals and many reluctant to work, sent away from the mother country to be dumped onto Virginia shores. Others, as Breen notes, were the victims of crooked port merchants called “spirits” who used propaganda to beguile the desperate and naïve into indentured servitude in Virginia. The Virginia masters were as disgusted with their labor force as the servants were frustrated by the abuse, malnourishment, and false expectations of the New World. Many accounts of beating, poor food, and perpetual servitude exist. The few servants that did obtain their freedom could not find land due to the fluxing Tobacco prices—thus evolved into a group of landless laborers, who wandered and lived off other landowner’s livestock. A “giddy multitude” of the dissatisfied, destitute, and detained had formed—composed of both black, white, the enslaved, and the freed but landless –all were united by the same exploitation of the master and the pretentious plantation owner."
  18. Captain, I did find some reference to "spirits - "Virginia Impartially examined, and left to publick view to be considered by all Judicious and honest men", by William Bullock, 1649 pg. 14 "...And lastly, the unfitnesse of the people transported for the Work, or being fit, not well ordered, hath hindred the Countries recoverie very much. The usuall way of getting servants, hath been by a sort of men nick-named Spirits, who take up all the idle, lazie, simple people they can intice, such as have professed idlenesse, and will rather beg then work; who are perswaded by these Spirits, they shall goe into a place where food shall drop into their mouthes: and being thus deluded, they take courage, and are transported. But not finding what was promised, their courage abates, & their minds being dejected, their work is according: nor doth the Master studie any way how to encourage them, but with sowre looks, for which they care not; and being tyred with chafing himselfe, growes carelesse, and so all comes to nothing. More might be said upon this subject, were it fit: 'tis most certaine, that one honest labouring husbandman shall doe more then five of these." The Charge, pg. 39 "The Servants are taken up by such men as we here call Spirits, and by them put into Cookes houses about Saint Katherines, where being once entred, are kept as Prisoners untill a Master fetches them off; and they lye at charges in these places a moneth or more, before they are taken away. when the Ship is ready, the Spirits charges and the Cooke for dieting paid, they are Shipped, and this charge is commonly.."
  19. Somewhat relieved it is Friday and anxious *( ) about a project that I started. Now…I’m loosing steam regarding the matter – (Damn! I hate when that happens). I have gotten two-thirds of the way through it and now it seems that it’s going to take me a bit longer than expected, (Damn! I hate when that happens). I just need to buckle down and get it done. I hope to post the finished item soon.
  20. I KNOW WHO YOU ARE CHATTING WITH!!!!! <Laugh...or try to at least V passing along the question
  21. Well, my reason for asking about the Virginia Rebellion of '76 here is because many of the supporters of the rebellion were indentured servants and slaves, who were a majority of Virginia's population. I would like to learn more about this – off line, of course.
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