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HAMILTON, Ohio in the 1850s: 1 through 3 of 3

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  1. Marriage & Morality
    date 1851 to 1854map HAMILTON, Ohiotags Marriage, Reciprocity

    What does it mean for a man or a woman to be with their soul mate?  Over the centuries, marriage has separated into different types of relationships between man and wife.  Marriage has strayed from the original idea of matrimony into various forms of devotion.  Historians have noted specific trends in the history of marriage and how people relate to each other, such as Thomas and Mary Gove Nichols...

  2. Escape through Death: The Story of Fugitive Margaret Garner
    date January 27, 1856 to January 28, 1856map HAMILTON, Ohiotags Law, Women, Slavery, african americans

    Deemed “a tale of horror” by The Cincinnati Enquirer, Margaret Garner, a fugitive slave, took the life of her child in order to save her from a life of slavery.  This is the story that Cincinnati woke up to on the morning of January 29, 1856.  Two nights earlier, sixteen slaves had escaped from Kentucky into Ohio, eight of whom included Garner and her family.  According to The Cincinnati Enquirer,...

  3. George Thompson's “Pleas for Slavery Answered”
    date 1857map HAMILTON, Ohiotags Sierra Leone, missionary, Mendi, George Thompson

    “Africa is calling,” exclaimed George Thompson in his pamphlet “Pleas for Slavery Answered,” “‘come over and help us, come and help us ere we die; O, Christians, to us fly, in Africa.’”  For the American missionary, advocating for anti-slavery through speeches and print was not enough. Thompson urged white Christians to go to Africa to “repent of [their] Wickedness” and to repay...