"Coffee" as the name of a female slave

[Joel S. Berson]

At 2/12/2009 01:52 PM, Wilson Gray wrote:
>As
>for nicknaming someone on the basis of his skin tone, well, you can
>*not* be serious!

Wilson, did you miss that I said in 1713?  When this Rhode Island
slave was likely named by her master, or her importer.

What I wondered is whether it was unusual to give a *female* slave a
name like "Coffee", since one of its possible sources is a male day name.

Joel

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