briery

Oast said Briery Presbyterian Church in Keysville, which dates to 1755, had the most complete records and reported the enslaved it rented out each year.

Briery’s records also reveal that very few enslaved people stayed at the same place for more than two or three years.

Children owned by Briery were twice as likely to die before the age of 10 than enslaved children on a plantation, according to Oast’s research.

A 14th-century ballade by Guillaume de Machaut set up György Ligeti’s hazy, briery “Hommage à Hilding Rosenberg,” from 1982.

Every tree no matter how young and spindly supported at least one vine, and running this way and that between the large trees were great briery ropes and nets and webs of intertwined vines of a dozen kinds.