A Sabbath Rest

In the Creek village of Attasi, near Tallassee, Alabama, on the Tallapoosa River in far south Alabama, Mr. Bartram encounters an unexpected Sunday custom:

On the Sabbath day before I set off from this place, I could not help observing the solemnity of the town, the silence and the retiredness of the red inhabitants, but a very few of them were to be seen, the doors of their dwellings shut, and if a child changed to stray out, it was quickly drawn in doors again: I asked the meaning of this, and was immediately answered, that it being the white people's beloved day or Sabbath, the Indians kept it religiously sacred to the Great Spirit.

--page 106.