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Episodes from "Rise And Fall of the Slave South," University of Virginia (Fall 2006): 1 through 10 of 1877

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  1. Phoenix Election Riot
    date November 8, 1898 to November 14, 1898map ABBEVILLE, South Carolinatags Race-Relations, Crime/Violence

    In 1898 blacks in South Carolina outnumbered whites 3 to 1. The majority of whites at the time feared blacks possessed too much power and therefore supported decreasing the black vote through disfranchisement. One family in South Carolina, The Tolberts, stood in stark contrast to the majority and supported black rights. As a result the Tolberts controlled the Negro vote and exercised a significant...

  2. Texas Medical Association Founded
    date November 14, 1853 to November 28, 1853map TRAVIS, Texas, HARRIS, Texastags Crime/Violence, Health/Death, Economy, Education

    The formation of the Texas Medical Association was in response to a lack of good health in Texas and also to a growing number of quack physicians in the state. Yellow fever and malaria greatly afflicted coastal Texas, especially Galveston, in the 1840s and 1850s. The mortality rates were so bad that nearly fifty percent of children were dying before they reached adulthood on the coastline of Texas....

  3. Petition of the U.S. Senate for compensation of land confiscation by United States Troops
    date April 10, 1874map ORLEANS, Louisianatags Economy, Law, Urban-Life/Boosterism

    On this day Mr. West petitioned the United States Senate to obtain compensation for lands which he claimed were taken from him by United States troops in Jackson, Mississippi. Though there is not much information given in this record, one can infer that this land was taken by the Union Army upon entering Mississippi. This case was referred to the Committee on Claims. Although the American Civil War...

  4. Durham Handbook Reveals Thoughts on Local African Americans
    date 1895 to 1896map DURHAM, North Carolinatags African-Americans, Education, Government, Law, Politics, Race-Relations

    The Educator Company, comprised of a group of people dedicated to the advancement and prosperity of their towns, released a Handbook of Durham County in 1895. In the introduction, the authors stated that their intention was to give people seeking a new home a brief description of the area and the advantages it offers as one of the foremost cities of the South. Throughout the book, they gave detailed...

  5. Liberia and American Colonization Society
    date June 27, 1858map LEON, Floridatags African-Americans, Politics, Migration/Transportation, Race-Relations, Slavery

    After reading the works of John C. Calhoun on the rights of states and slavery, Susan Bradford Eppes spoke with her parents about enslavement. While her father supported slavery as a slave owner himself, Susan learned that her mother opposed the institution. Susan said that her mother believed that white slave owners were the real slaves in the relationship. Having slaves required added work and responsibility...

  6. The Despotism of Jefferson Davis
    date March 24, 1863map WAKE, North Carolinatags Government, Politics

    The Confederate government extended its legislative powers to all spheres. The Raleigh Standard urged North Carolina citizens to take precautions against the Confederacy?s encroachments. A bill introduced in the Confederate Senate allowed the government to impress all the cotton in the Confederate States and then paid for it in Confederate bonds at fifteen cents per pound. In an attempt to pay its...

  7. Klan Murders Senator Stephens
    date May 24, 1870map CASWELL, North Carolinatags Crime/Violence, Health/Death, Race-Relations

    Three days passed before the news of Senator Stephens? assassination reached Maria Massey Barringer. On May 21, 1870, Republican Senator John W. Stephens was murdered at the Caswell County Courthouse by members of the Ku Klux Klan (KKK). On account of his political principles, Stephens was stabbed, choked, and left dying on a woodpile in a rear room of the courthouse. Prior to his murder Stephens had...

  8. A Long Process
    date January 9, 1824 to May 6, 1824map ST JOHNS, Floridatags Slavery

    Charles Seton was still waiting for payment after the court ordered Eleazar Waterman to pay Seton for a loan and after he filed two petitions to the court to speed up the process. Waterman was in debt to Charles Seton for a couple of years. On June 11, 1823, the Superior Court of East Florida ordered the sheriff, James R. Hankam, to sell the slaves that belonged to Waterman. The slaves were supposed...

  9. The New Textile Industry in Athens, Georgia
    date January 11, 1849map CLARKE, Georgiatags Agriculture, Economy, Government, Law, Politics, Migration/Transportation, Urban-Life/Boosterism

    Cotton farming had reached great heights in Georgia by the mid-1800's but some saw that there was still room to grow in the cotton business. Though most of their neighbors were engaged in farming, twenty citizens of Athens, Georgia decided to break the mold. In January of 1849 they announced in the Athens Southern Banner, that they were joining together to form a new business: The Athens Manufacturing...

  10. Man Proposes Cotton-farmers Alliance
    date January 9, 1898map MECKLENBURG, North Carolinatags Agriculture, Economy, Politics

    On January 9, 1898, A.R. Logie went before a large gathering of farmers and cotton-growers in the Charlotte and proposed an organization of all cotton-farmers in the area. Under this association, farmers would pool their entire product of that year's growth, sell it as one, and share the dividends. This group would be headed by an elected congress of representative farmers who would create a constitution...

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