Terry,

I downloaded a very high-res version of the photo, and I'm almost sure that
the group of boys and men are playing an earlier form of baseball.

Hope this helps.

Martha Katz-Hyman
Curator
Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation
Williamsburg, Virginia

On Thu, Jan 7, 2016 at 3:54 PM, Terry Meyers <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

>         Thanks for the several replies about the group(s) taught by
> President Dawson….   Dawson was supportive of religious education for
> blacks locally and helped raise funds for a charity school in Maryland that
> admitted blacks; it’s striking that in one instance he refers to the
> College’s enslaved people as “persons belonging to the College,” not
> “slaves” or “servants,” the usual euphemism.  All that suggests to me a
> kind of ecumenism that supports what I see as language that is clear in any
> case.
>
>         And now for something completely different……
>
>         NYPL has just digitized a massive amount of material, some of it
> photographs relating to Virginia:
>
>
> http://digitalcollections.nypl.org/search/index?filters%5Broot-collection%5D=5261fd50-c52e-012f-85ec-58d385a7bc34&keywords=virginia#/?scroll=3
>
>          It includes a view of the Williamsburg courthouse.
>
>
> http://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47e1-b90a-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99
>
> I think I see one or more men playing musical instruments on the
> courthouse steps, and it looks like some kind of game, maybe a ball game,
> going on to the side.  Can anyone figure out what the game might be?
>
>
>
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