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DAVIDSON, Tennessee in the 1850s: 1 through 10 of 14

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  1. Governor Aaron V. Brown of Tennessee and the Question of Slavery
    date 1850map DAVIDSON, Tennesseetags Government, Politics, Race-Relations, Slavery

    In 1850, Governor Aaron V. Brown of Tennessee spoke at a benefit for an orphan's asylum in Nashville, Tennessee. During his speech at Odd Fellow's Hall, he addressed the recent progress of the United States in regarding the escalating question of slavery. Governor Brown expressed the feelings of many southerners who felt threatened by the anti-slavery rhetoric in the North. The Governor also vividly...

  2. Steamboating on the Cumberland
    date July 6, 1850map DAVIDSON, Tennesseetags African-Americans, Economy, Migration/Transportation, Urban-Life/Boosterism

    As both a cotton and tobacco dealer, and a forwarding and commission merchant, A. Hamilton ran a regular advertisement for his services in The Nashville Daily Union. In the advertisement he ran on Saturday, July 6, 1850, Hamilton reassured his former patrons that he planned to remain in the business of buying and selling cotton. Hamilton thanked the public for the business they provided him in that...

  3. An advertisement for a runaway slave appears in The Republican Banner
    date August 3, 1850map DAVIDSON, Tennesseetags Slavery

    On August 3, 1850 a notice appeared in The Republican Banner for a runaway slave. A slave boy named Tom who “in appearance resembles an Indian' had run away from a Dr. Waters. (The Republican Banner, August 3, 1850) The note suggests that Tom would not be intellectually capable of escaping all the way to freedom without needing the assistance of Whites, and thus Dr. Waters published this runaway...

  4. Approximately 300 Irish workers arrive in Chattanooga to work on the Chattanooga and Nashville Railroad
    date August 25, 1850map DAVIDSON, Tennesseetags Migration/Transportation

    On Thursday, August 22, approximately 300 Irish workers arrived in Chattanooga, Tennessee to work on the Chattanooga and Nashville Railroad. Plans for the construction of the Chattanooga and Nashville Railroad began in June of 1845. The railroad was conceived for the purpose of expanding commerce in Chattanooga by reducing the time it took to travel there from Nashville and other major cities, significantly...

  5. Doctor C.K. Winston and the University of Nashville Medical School
    date March 13, 1852map DAVIDSON, Tennesseetags Health/Death, Education

    Doctors C.K. and J.D. Winston declared their services available to the people of Nashville on March 13, 1852. The two doctors provided both the practice of general medicine and surgery. The advertisement gave the locations of their offices, the first on Cherry Street and the second out of Doctor J.D. Winston's home on Vine Street. Doctor C.K. Winston gained significant praise in the medical community...

  6. Temperance Movement Debated in Tennessee
    date July 1, 1853map DAVIDSON, Tennesseetags Arts/Leisure, Church/Religious-Activity, Crime/Violence

    The fate of alcohol was uncertain during mid-nineteenth Century. Alcohol had many opponents. Protestants thought it was a great evil. Many Southern whites were afraid of keeping alcohol legal for fear that it could cause great damage if slaves gained access to it. Tennessee was very involved in the temperance movement although it had not completely banned alcohol like Maine. However, in 1853,...

  7. Sorghum Arrives in America
    date July 2, 1853map DAVIDSON, Tennesseetags Agriculture, Economy, Migration/Transportation

    Sorghum, a grass that grows in the tropical regions of the world, made its grand entrance to the South via Georgia and South Carolina in 1853. Sorghum competed with sugar in the market for sweet-tasting plants. Sugar could come from a variety of plants from several different countries such as Italy, China, and Brazil whereas sorghum mainly came from Africa. The South might have needed sugar for...

  8. Public Schools Tax
    date February 28, 1854map DAVIDSON, Tennesseetags Economy, Education

    Governor Andrew Johnson's recommendation of a tax to support the creation of public schools in Tennessee was made law. The governor was a strong believer in mass education and forced his unenthusiastic legislature to pass the law. For the first time in its history, Tennessee had fully-operating public schools.In Johnson's first message to the Assembly on December 19, 1853, the governor mainly talked...

  9. Cholera Epidemic
    date May 26, 1854 to June 3, 1854map DAVIDSON, Tennesseetags Health/Death, Migration/Transportation, Urban-Life/Boosterism

    Nineteen people in Nashville and the surrounding area died of what doctors suspected to be cholera. Most of the deaths occurred near the city limits. The Nashville Union sought to control any possible panic by relaying information of the epidemic with this concluding sentence: This is the whole truth up to this time [original emphasis]. They reassured their readers that once the weather changed...

  10. Capitalist Enslavement
    date 1854map DAVIDSON, Tennesseetags Economy, Race-Relations, Slavery

    George Fitzhugh, a native of Brentsville, Virginia, published Sociology for the South, or the Failure of Free Society. He looked upon Africans and African-Americans as children, uniquely suited to slavery. Just as children cannot be governed by mere law ? because they are so much under the influence of impulse, passion and appetite, the negro individual had to be treated as a grown up child ? The...

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