Jefferson names the banjar and its origin

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Writing what became Notes on the State of Virginia, Thomas Jefferson describes the instrument proper to enslaved Africans as "the Banjar, which they brought hither from Africa". The sentence is doing two things at once and both are worth noticing: it is contemporary documentary evidence, from a slaveholder, that the instrument was understood in eighteenth-century Virginia to be African in origin — and it appears inside a passage of racial theorising whose purpose was not to honour the people who made it.

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