SUFFOLK, Massachusetts in the 1820s: 1 through 5 of 5
- The Mystique of Shamanism
February 19, 1820
SUFFOLK, Massachusetts
Health/Death, Native-Americans, Science/TechnologyOn 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 the leg,...
- The Republic Woman and the public sphere in the early 1800s.
March 2, 1822
SUFFOLK, Massachusetts
Women, women's rightsSusan Thoughtful wrote to the editor of The Euterpeiad on March 2, 1822 to ask a few simple questions about the position of men and women in the republic society. She wondered how women were considered for government positions and how it affected the ideals of marriage. Thoughful questioned for example, a woman named Elizabeth Bartlett. Since she ran for office for the Register of Deeds, Bartlett created...
- Christian Women and Fashion
April, 1825
SUFFOLK, Massachusetts
Church/Religious-Activity, WomenIn 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...
- Phillis Wheatly and a Nations Refuge in Religion
May 23, 1827
SUFFOLK, Massachusetts
African-Americans, Church/Religious-Activity, Slavery, Urban-Life/BoosterismOn 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 into...
- A New Hero Rises: Andrew Jackson and the Battle of New Orleans
1828
SUFFOLK, Massachusetts, ORLEANS, Louisiana
Arts/Leisure, WarWhen 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 the...
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