Object Record
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Metadata
Object Name |
Bedspread |
Catalog Number |
0985.13.01317 |
Date |
ca. 1800 |
Description |
Bedspread of white cotton. |
Material |
cotton |
Dimensions |
W-80 L-108 inches |
Owned |
Mary Jane Bullard |
Owner Regiment |
No association |
Made |
unidentified slaves, Bullard Plantation, Spotsylvania Co., VA |
Provenance |
The slaves belonging Richard Woolfolk Bullard planted, picked, spun, and wove the cotton for this bedspread in about 1800. Richard Bullard owned a plantation in Spotsylvania County, Virginia. His daughter Mary Jane Bullard later owned this bedspread. |
People |
unidentified slaves unidentified African Americans Bullard, Richard Woolfolk Guard, Mary Jane Bullard [Mrs. Cornelius] Bullard, Mary Jane Guard, Rosa Lee |
Subjects |
African Americans slaves slavery Bedspreads Blankets weaving women |