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DUVAL, Florida in the 1830s: 1 through 3 of 3

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  1. No Chance, the Fall of a Seminole
    date 1817 to 1840map DUVAL, Floridatags Native-Americans

    Early in the nineteenth century, the United States' soldiers scouted out Indians in order to rid the new white settlements in the south of Indians. Many soldiers in their infantries would leave their fort and go scout and capture Indians; however, majority of the time the soldiers killed the Indians instead because the Indians resisted capture. When a soldier caught an Indian off guard and alone, the...

  2. A Dissenting Voice
    date July 9, 1837map DUVAL, Floridatags Education, Politics, Women

    Unmarried and living on the La Grange plantation in northeast Florida, Ellen Brown could no longer tolerate her brother's inconsistencies on matrimony. Mannevillete Brown believed marriage to be an ultimatum-the great aim of women and last public act before retreating into domestic life. But Mannevillete also spoke of marrying for money, station, and power. How did he then reconcile his speech on a...

  3. The Art of Snuff-Taking
    date January 29, 1835map DUVAL, Floridatags Arts/Leisure, Economy, Slavery

    Surveying Jacksonville society, Leigh Hunt saw humor in the consumption of tobacco. Men of all classes, of all shapes and sizes, employed distinctively bizarre methods of using tobacco. Inhaling dry tobacco powder seems simple enough, but the means to that end varied upon the artistic originality of the southern man. Some gentlemen were quite convulsive, propelling the powder upward into their nostril...