I swear, I just wrote on my calendar, 'Learn how to make pokeberry dye.
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He also carried a hollowed-out book with a secret compartment, into which he had tucked a tied-off animal bladder filled with bright red pokeberry juice.
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On our walk, he pointed out some of the same plants, like pokeberry, with which we stained our hands red, and ragweed, which has a pleasing smell if you're not allergic.
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We're introduced to Benjamin Lay, who in 1738 exhorted his fellow Quakers to renounce slavery in a dramatic speech involving a hollowed-out Bible and a pig's bladder filled with crimson pokeberry juice.
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Pokeberry Creek is a long 3rd order tributary to the Haw River in Chatham County, North Carolina. This creek is one of two streams in the United States named Pokeberry Creek. The other is in Warrick County, Indiana.
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Pokeberry Creek drains of area, receives about 47.4 in/year of precipitation, and has a wetness index of 395.85 and is about 71% forested.
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Pokeberry Creek rises about 5 miles southwest of Chapel Hill, North Carolina in Chatham County and then flows southwest to the Haw River just downstream of Bynum.
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"Pōpolo" means blackberry in Hawaiian referring to the black nightshade or can also be used to describe a lobelia or a pokeberry. Pōpolo became used to describe the dark skin of African people.
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It has also been historically known as Snipe Valley Creek. Numerous explanations have been given for the stream's various names. The name "Poke Valley Run" may come from the "shite pokes" (small green herons) that once were common in the area, or from an abundance of pokeberry plants in the area. A very early name for the stream's valley, "Schnippe Thai" also comes from snipes.
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Mourning doves do not dig or scratch for seeds, though they will push aside ground litter; instead they eat what is readily visible. They will sometimes perch on plants and eat from there. Mourning doves show a preference for the seeds of certain species of plant over others. Foods taken in preference to others include pine nuts, sweetgum seeds, and the seeds of pokeberry, amaranth, canary grass, corn, sesame, and wheat.
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As a result, numerous small seeds and fruit seeds were recovered. Of the fruits, pin cherry, pokeberry, grape and blackberry/raspberry were present. Of the seeds, several indigenous starchy and oily seed were recovered, including goosefoot, maygrass, knotweed, amaranth, sumpweed, and sunflower. These seeds are part of the Eastern Agricultural Complex, a group of cultivated or semi-cultivated plants utilized by the Prehistoric populations in addition to the better-known crops such as maize, beans and squash.
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Owen notes that "Indians and early settlers used the root in poultices and certain drugs for skin diseases and rheumatism." The late 19th century herbal, the King's American Dispensatory, describes various folk medical uses that led individuals to ingest pokeberry products.John King, Harvey Wickes Felter & John Uri Lloyd, 1898, "Entry: Phytolacca," in King's American Dispensatory, Cincinnati : Ohio Valley Co., see and , accessed 2 May 2015. Phytolacca extract was advertised as a prescription weight loss drug in the 1890s.
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Phytolacca americana or pokeweed is also known as pokeberry,USDA-ARS, 2015, "Taxon: Phytolacca americana L.," at National Genetic Resources Program.Germplasm Resources Information Network - (GRIN) [Online Database], National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland, see , accessed 2 May 2015. poke root, Virginia poke (or simply poke),Bailey, L.H., Bailey, E.Z., and the staff of the Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium, 1976, Hortus third: A concise dictionary of plants cultivated in the United States and Canada, New York, NY:Macmillan, , see , accessed 2 May 2015. pigeonberry, inkberry, redweed or red ink plant.
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When passersby expressed concern for his health, he said that slaves were made to work outdoors in winter dressed as he was. On another occasion, he kidnapped the child of slaveholders temporarily, to show them how Africans felt when their relatives were sold overseas. The most notable act occurred in Burlington, New Jersey, at the 1738 Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of Quakers. Dressed as a soldier, he concluded a diatribe against slavery, quoting the Bible saying that all men should be equal under God, by plunging a sword into a Bible containing a bladder of blood-red pokeberry juice, which spattered over those nearby.
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