Episodes Located: SUFFOLK, Massachusetts in the 1820's

  1. A New Hero Rises: Andrew Jackson and the Battle of New Orleans
    date 1828map SUFFOLK, Massachusetts, ORLEANS, Louisianatags Arts/Leisure, War

    When an individual's legacy spawns something as seemingly minute as a musical composition to be written in their honor, a new level of greatness has been achieved. Andrew Jackson was no stranger to this after growing into one of the most popular personas in America in his day and age. James Hewitt (1770-1827), a local composer that left England as a young man to begin his own American dream in...

  2. Christian Women and Fashion
    date April, 1825map SUFFOLK, Massachusettstags Church/Religious-Activity, Women

    In an 1825 essay entitled "The Female Character," a Dr. Springs wrote "a Christian woman ought to be distinguishable by her simplicity." The desire for simplicity was a common trend seen in many Christian communities in the early to mid 1800's. For many, clothing choice reflected how a woman was viewed by her society. In early American Christian towns men wanted their wives and daughters to be seen...

  3. Phillis Wheatly and a Nations Refuge in Religion
    date May 23, 1827map SUFFOLK, Massachusettstags African-Americans, Church/Religious-Activity, Slavery, Urban-Life/Boosterism

    On May 23, 1827, more than forty years after it was first published, Phillis Wheatly's short poem, "On Being Brought from Africa to America," was republished in Zion's Herald, an independent Methodist newspaper published in Boston, Massachusetts. "Remember Christians Negroes black as Cain/May be refined, and join the angelic train": this last line of Wheatly's poem refers to her own emergence...

  4. The Mystique of Shamanism
    date February 19, 1820map SUFFOLK, Massachusettstags Health/Death, Native-Americans, Science/Technology

    On 19 February 1820, the Boston Recorder published an article on an incident that occurred overseas in Australia. A pilot at Port Dalrymple was bitten by a venomous snake and thought to be a goner by onlookers. However, a native stepped in and turned what appeared to be a man awaiting death into a healthy human being once again. He allegedly rubbed the wound with an unknown bark, palpated...