_:vb6930262 "A colored girl [\u2026] was fined ten dollars in the Freedman's Court yesterday, for being drunk and disorderly. Not having the money in her possession, she requested that a guard be sent with her to her residence to procure it. The Provost allowed a guard to wait on the wench, who, as soon as she found herself inside of her own door, locked it, and left the poor guard outside without the money. He returned to court without either the wench or fine."@en . _:vb6930260 . _:vb6930261 "Now, I bought a gal once, when I was in the trade,\u2014a tight, likely wench she was, too, and quite considerable smart\u2014 [...]"@en . _:vb6930261 . _:vb6930263 "So complete was this illusion, claims [Eric] Lott, that many audience members, including Mark Twain's mother, believed they were seeing authentic, biologically black performers on New York stages. Of course, wench characters seem to especially test the bounds of authentic performance. Played by men, wenches were nonetheless read by audiences as beautiful women: [...] [E]xtant photographs and engravings of wench performers do not always represent them as blacked up, [\u2026] In antebellum minstrel shows, wench songs were most often sung about mulatto women rather than by them."@en . _:vb6930262 "1866 March, \u201CSharp Wench\u201D, in The Appeal, St. Paul, Minneapolis, Minn.: Parker, Burgett & Hardy, \u2192OCLC, page 3; quoted in Hannah Rosen, \u201CNotes\u201D, in Terror in the Heart of Freedom: Citizenship, Sexual Violence, and the Meaning of Race in the Postemancipation South (Gender and American Culture), Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of North Carolina Press, 2009, \u2192ISBN, footnote 186, page 282:"@en . _:vb6930262 . _:vb6930263 . _:vb6930260 "1776\u20131787, Carmelita Robertson, Elizabeth E. D. Eve, Black Loyalists of Nova Scotia: Tracing the History of Tracadie Loyalists, 1776\u201387 (Curatorial Report; no. 91), Halifax, N.S.: History Section, Nova Scotia Museum, Department of Tourism & Culture, published 2000, \u2192ISBN:"@en . _:vb6930263 "2014, Kirsten Pullen, \u201CLight Egyptian: Lena Horne and the Representation of Black Femininity\u201D, in Like a Natural Woman: Spectacular Female Performance in Classical Hollywood, New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, \u2192ISBN, pages 106\u2013107:"@en . _:vb6930259 "(US, archaic, or, historical) A black woman (of any age), especially if in a condition of servitude."@en . "6" . _:vb6930259 . _:vb6930260 "Nancy Basset, 28, likely wench, mulatto / Proved to be free. / Certified free as per General Birch Certificate. / / Patience Jackson, 23, very likely wench, mulatto / Says she was born free Rhode Island. / Certified free as per General Birch Certificate."@en . . _:vb6930261 "1851 June \u2013 1852 April, Harriet Beecher Stowe, \u201C[Eliza\u2019s Escape]\u201D, in Uncle Tom\u2019s Cabin; or, Life among the Lowly, volume I, Boston, Mass.: John P[unchard] Jewett & Company; Cleveland, Oh.: Jewett, Proctor & Worthington, published 20 March 1852, \u2192OCLC, page 100:"@en . .