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WILKINSON, Mississippi in the 1840s: 1 through 3 of 3

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  1. Indian Removal
    date 1830 to 1832map WILKINSON, Mississippitags Government, Law, Migration/Transportation, Native-Americans, Race-Relations

    On January 30, 1832 The Woodville Mississippian published an extensive letter from Lewis Cass, the Secretary of War, to Andrew Jackson, the President of the United States. Cass was concerned about the policy that the government would take regarding the Native Americans living in the United States. Cass admitted that whites had harmed the Indians for the past two centuries, and he saw the need to make...

  2. Reaction to Nullification
    date November 4, 1832map WILKINSON, Mississippitags Government, Law, Politics

    In 1832, Sophia Hunt, a Democrat living in Woodville, Mississippi, received a letter from her father in South Carolina describing the recent crisis of his state. The Nullification Crisis threatened to hurl South Carolina into warfare with the rest of the country. In her November 4 reply, Sophia expressed her sorrow upon hearing this news, as well as her doubt that South Carolina would be successful...

  3. Conversion from the Presbyterian Church to the Baptist Church
    date 1837map WILKINSON, Mississippitags Church/Religious-Activity, Slavery

    Unlike the Presbyterian or Episcopal Church, the Methodist Church in the 1830s did not require that its clergy be educated. In fact, education was sometimes frowned upon, particularly on the frontier where ministers rode around preaching to small communities. These ministers, called circuit riders, led a particularly dangerous life traveling through undeveloped areas. Because of the lifestyle of circuit...