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FAUQUIER, Virginia in the 1880s: 1 through 4 of 4

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  1. Guilty Until Proven Innocent?
    date January 20, 1880map FAUQUIER, Virginiatags African-Americans, Crime/Violence, Health/Death, Law, Migration/Transportation, Race-Relations, Women

    Arthur Jordan, a large, bull-necked, thick-lipped Negro worked for the Corder family and began having relations with one of the daughters, Miss Corder. It is unknown whether Miss Corder consented to Arthur Jordan's advances. However, many people in the town were suspicious that she was being taken advantage of. Once word got out that a black man was having a relationship with a white woman, the people...

  2. Petersburg Convention for Blacks
    date 1881map FAUQUIER, Virginiatags Race-Relations

    A convention was held in Petersburg, VA, that gathered the blacks of Virginia for political discussion. At the time, the Readjuster party was gaining force in the Southern states as it challenged the conservative Democrats and posed a threat of division amongst the Republicans. General William Mahone, a well-known capitalist, a former Democrat, and a former Confederate general, led the Readjusters...

  3. The Reality of Racism
    date September 1, 1884map FAUQUIER, Virginiatags African-Americans, Crime/Violence, Education, Race-Relations

    Mason O. Matthews wrote letters home to his mother for the duration of his stay at Bethel Classical and Military Academy in Virginia. He described his daily life in detail and also wrote of his attitudes towards minorities and Yankees. As a young man from a Virginia family, Mason demonstrated negative feelings towards these groups during the post-Reconstruction era. Racial discrimination...

  4. Equal Educations?
    date May 27, 1887map FAUQUIER, Virginiatags African-Americans, Crime/Violence, Economy, Education

    Mr. Mathews opened the letter. It was from his son who wrote of the upcoming exams he had in school. Included among those exams were Geometry, Rhetoric, Vergil and Latin Exercises, French Reading and Exercise, Latin Syntax, Algebra, and History. Among these exams, there was no break except for Sunday, a day for Church and rest. Mr. Mathews felt proud that his son was getting such a good education,...