Please excuse cross-listings.

I am a doctoral candidate at the University of Delaware, and I am writing my dissertation on the use of bells, horns, & other auditory signalling devices used to manage labor in nineteenth-century America. 

At present, I am looking for preserved antebellum southern historic sites that still have the bell(s) that were used to direct & discipline enslaved field hands - ie, calling them to and from the fields, etc. I would also appreciate any other relevant information anyone is willing to share - that is, if you have or know of the existence of a slave-bell or horn in a museum collection, know of a collection of particularly relevant papers, etc. 

Many thanks in advance,

Hillary Murtha
University of Delaware

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