Episodes Located: BALTIMORE, Maryland in the 1820's

  1. Reverend L. D. Dewey Writes to Support Colonization
    date June, 1825 to 1825map BALTIMORE, Marylandtags Slavery, Race Relations

    As the Reverend L. D. Dewey wrote to Reverend W. M'Kenney from Mount Pleasant, South Carolina, he reflected upon his observations from the African colony he had just visited. The letter he produced in June 1825 portrayed sentiments expressed throughout the nation at the time on African colonization. He described the colony of Haiti in the most positive light, depicting the colony as a haven of...

  2. Transportation of US Mail Between Baltimore and Philadelphia
    date 1825map BALTIMORE, Marylandtags Government, Migration/Transportation

    On January 29th, 1825, Postmaster General John McLean wrote a letter to Henry Clay, Speaker of the House of Representatives, explaining the horrible traveling conditions that had to be endured to carry the mail between Baltimore, Maryland, and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. McLean discussed the horrendous traveling circumstances during the winter and spring seasons when crossing the different rivers...

  3. Work started in Maryland on the Baltimore-Ohio Railroad.
    date July 4, 1828 to January 1, 1853map BALTIMORE, Marylandtags Economy

    On July 4th, 1828 construction began in Baltimore, Maryland to build one of the first railroad lines in the United States. It was a massive project proposal that took many months of negotiations between the Maryland State legislature and the Chesapeake Company. The Maryland Gazette, based in Annapolis Maryland, reported that the cost of the operation to be in the range of five hundred to seven hundred...

  4. Daniel Raymond and Anti-Slavery Maryland
    date September 24, 1825map BALTIMORE, Marylandtags Anti-slavery, Maryland

      In Maryland in 1825, an anti-slavery candidate emerged from the city of Baltimore named Daniel Raymond. Seeking a position in the Maryland General Assembly, Raymond was highly publicized in the anti-slavery circles in Maryland. One such publication, the Genius of Universal Emancipation and Baltimore Courier touted Raymond’s disdain for slavery and his support of gradual emancipation. Nominated...