Episodes Located: DAVIDSON, Tennessee in the 1850's

  1. 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...

  2. 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...

  3. 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...

  4. Cause of the Kansas Troubles
    date May 1, 1856map DAVIDSON, Tennesseetags Politics, Slavery

    The Know-Nothing Party was blamed for the disorder in Kansas in the 1850s. On May 1 1856, the Nashville Union and American published an article criticizing the party. The article claimed that the aim of the recently created Know-Nothing Party was the abolition of slavery and, in particular, to "defeat any attempt to introduce Kansas into the union as a slave state." Know-Nothingism was...

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