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Episodes from "Rise And Fall of the Slave South," University of Virginia (Fall 2006): 41 through 50 of 1877

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  1. North Carolinians Strive for Free Public Schools
    date December 26, 1873map WAKE, North Carolinatags Education, Government, Law

    The North Carolina legislature took a step in the right direction by proposing a bill to authorize cities and towns with more than 2,000 inhabitants to establish and maintain public schools. Authorities of these towns could at anytime decide whether or not free public schools shall be established. Raleigh citizens voiced their overwhelming approval for this bill during a town meeting. The public school...

  2. Desolating Epidemic in San Antonio
    date January 30, 1879map MILAM, Texastags Health/Death, Economy

    An unknown epidemic struck the community of San Antonio, Texas, in January of 1879. There had been much disease spread throughout Texas in this time, but this epidemic was unrecognizable. The symptoms were such as cholera or yellow fever, which had previously desolated the population in San Antonio, and more widely, throughout Texas. Cholera is usually transmitted through either the consumption of...

  3. Assassination Conspiracy Uncovered
    date October 9, 1890 to December 8, 1890map DODGE, Georgiatags Crime/Violence, Law, Politics

    On the evening of October 9, 1890, J.C. Forsythe settled into his library in his Dodge County residence to relax for the night. He was the everyday normal Georgia citizen, working at the Normansdale Lumber Company, managing the estate of Norman Dodge, and even serving as a witness in an ongoing perjury case against another member of the town, Luther A. Hall. No one expected that he would turn up dead...

  4. The Value of the Extended Family
    date October 21, 1838map JASPER, Georgiatags Church/Religious-Activity, Education, Migration/Transportation

    In 1838 Iveson Lewis Brookes received a letter from his cousin, P.B. (signed with only initials) informing him that his nephew, P.B.'s son, might be moving to Augusta, Georgia for a job. Augusta was near the plantation Iveson was managing for his son in Jasper and Jones counties. We can tell from the letter that Iveson and P.B. were not particularly involved in each others' lives because P.B. took...

  5. The Scarcity of Salt
    date January 25, 1848map JASPER, Georgiatags Agriculture, Economy, Migration/Transportation

    In 1848 Walker I. Brookes sent a letter to his father from his plantation in Jasper and Jones counties, Georgia. In the letter he discussed many problems he was facing on the plantation. The troubles he wrote about included having to postpone planting, having to buy animals and having to deal with a fire in a field that burned a fence. He began the letter by discussing a delivery of materials by wagon...

  6. Raging Measles in Ruckdale, Texas
    date December 29, 1876map MILAM, Texastags Health/Death

    On December 29, 1876, D.F.M. Chandler sat down in Ruckdale, Texas to write a letter to Mrs. Roberts, a dear friend. These two had been in written contact with each other previous to this letter, and Chandler apologized for the lapse of time before his responding. Ruckdale, he said, had been hit with a raging case of the measles. This case of the measles terribly afflicted the community; Chandler's...

  7. Bringing Women's Education Close to Home
    date January 8, 1852map CLARKE, Georgiatags Economy, Education, Migration/Transportation, Women

    An Old Citizen of Athens, as he called himself, wrote an editorial for the Southern Banner in January 1852 complaining about the way Athenians were educating their daughters. He argued that instead of sending their daughters to large overgrown establishment outside of Athens, they should take advantage of the good teachers and schools available closer to home. There are two advantages that this Old...

  8. The Church and the Irreconcilable Differences between Protestants and Catholics
    date October 5, 1879 to 1879map PITTSYLVANIA, Virginiatags Church/Religious-Activity

    October 5, 1879 was a Sunday, and the weather was beautiful and bright as the many religious people of Danville, VA, walked to church to attend the hour-long service that morning. Later that night, at the Main Street Methodist Church in downtown Danville, Rev. P.A. Peterson delivered a speech called The Primacy of St. Peter, according to the Catholic Church. To a packed audience which was deeply interested...

  9. Mechanization
    date April 23, 1896map ROWAN, North Carolinatags Agriculture, Economy, Migration/Transportation

    A local newspaper in Salisbury, North Carolina published an article on April 23, 1896, reporting the effects that labor-saving machinery was having on their community. The Salisbury Truth article was composed of statements and facts gathered by a person who has given the subject a great deal of thought. The piece described how, with the help of modern machinery, one man and his two sons were able to...

  10. Battle of Monroe's Cross Roads
    date March 19, 1865map CUMBERLAND, North Carolinatags Crime/Violence, War

    In 1865, Union Major General William Tecumseh Sherman advanced North from Georgia, through the Carolinas, with the intention of regrouping with Northern forces in Virginia. As Sherman's army advanced into North Carolina, Major General Judson Kilpatrick's cavalry division screened the left flank. On the evening of March 9th, Kilpatrick's brigade decided to set up camp in Cumberland County, about fifteen...

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