musketoe-bars

Updated: May 17, 2025

In South Carolina musketoes swarm in myriads, more than half the year they are so excessively annoying at night, that no family thinks of sleeping without nets or "musketoe-bars" hung over their bedsteads, yet slaves are never provided with them, unless it be the favorite old domestics who get the cast-off pavilions; and yet these very masters and mistresses will be so kind to their horses as to provide them with fly nets.

American Anti-Slavery Society - The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Part 3 of 4