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  1. Episode is the on New York Court of Appeals case called The People of The State of New York against Jonathan Lemmon. The case was commonly known as the “Lemmon Slave Case”.
    date January, 1860 to March, 1860map NEW YORK, New Yorktags habeas corpus, Slavery, Lemmon Case

    On January 25, 1860, the New York Times reported on an important case before the New York Court of Appeals called The People of The State of New York against Jonathan Lemmon. The case was commonly known as the “Lemmon Slave Case”. The events that led to this appeal dated back to 1850. The court case brought up hard questions about slavery within the United States of America and challenged the slavery...

  2. "The Political Quadrille": the 1860 Election
    date 1860map NEW YORK, New Yorktags Abraham Lincoln, 1860 Election, Harper's Weekly, "The Political Quadrille"

    During the Nineteenth Century, political cartoons became very popular ways for people to learn about politics in a humorous way.  One of the first American Political magazines, Harper’s Weekly (A Journal of Civilization), was one of the first magazines that published political cartoons.  Arguably, some of the most important articles, illustrations, and cartoons came from Harper’s Weekly.  One...

  3. Expressions of Anger Toward Secrecy and Censorship in the Union
    date January 1, 1862map NEW YORK, New Yorktags Seceded States

    Censorship and secrecy became the motto of the Union Army in the beginning of 1862. By this point, the war had only been going on for one year and civilians already had begun to grow weary of its costs. Union citizens came to be weary of the issue surrounding government censorship of communication devices such as the newspapers and mail. One of the complaints concerning this matter appeared in The...

  4. Van Evrie offers evidence for the necessity of maintaining Slavery
    date 1862map NEW YORK, New Yorktags Slavery, Economy, trade relations

    Van Evrie's thirty page pamphlet, written in 1862 used the example of the West Indies, and with the help of statistics and examples, demonstrated how slavery in the West Indies benefited the United States of America. It also showed how eventual abolition in the United States would be a failure to both Southern States and Northern States. Throughout the nineteenth century, the islands of the West Indies...

  5. Courageous Irish Brigade
    date November 18, 1862map NEW YORK, New Yorktags Race Relations: Irish, Civil War

           Their eager face showed no doubt or fear. Their hearts pumped full of excitement and pride. As the Irish Brigade took to the streets of New York City, the citizens of the metropolis rose up to cheer them on. The New York Times described in detail the farewell march of the 69th New York Volunteers’ otherwise known as the “Irish Brigade”. The Irish Brigade was an infantry brigade,...

  6. William Hall Supports the Draft but Abhors the Riot (1863)
    date July 15, 1863map NEW YORK, New Yorktags Montgomery Blair, Immigration

    Buildings had beenburned, homes had been destroyed, and men, women, and children perished at the hands of angry citizens. In July of 1863, New York City became engulfed in a wave of mob violence that swept through the city. Irish immigrants made up the majority of the rioters in opposition to the Enrollment Act of Conscription set forth earlier that year by President Abraham Lincoln. The rioters did...

  7. A Bounty Hunter's Execution
    date February 18, 1865map NEW YORK, New Yorktags Bounty Hunting, Execution

    An article appeared in the Altoona Tribune on February 18, 1865, detailing the execution of James Delvlin, accused of bounty hunting. The execution order arrived on Wednesday the 15, to Colonel Bowbord, the commander at Governor's Island in New York. Reverend Father Healy of St. Peter's Church became Devlin's spiritual advisor while he was waiting for his execution. Throughout his wait for execution,...

  8. Black Codes and Racism in South Carolina Prevent Migration to the State by Northerners
    date December 8, 1865map CHARLESTON, South Carolina, NEW YORK, New Yorktags Migration, Politics, Race-Relations, Black Codes, South Carolina, Reconstruction

    At the close of the Civil War, wealthy northerners were interested in acquiring new farmland to develop. To do so, they needed to relocate to areas that were less populated than the North. Despite their admiration for South Carolina’s “lands and climate,” northerners feared living in the state, because of the potential violence. During this time, South Carolina began enacting black codes to restrict...

  9. Cholera and boosterism in New York and Chicago
    date 1866map NEW YORK, New York, COOK, Illinoistags disease in the north, Chicago, New York City, cholera, rivalry

    Disease epidemics of the mid to late nineteenth century caused an immense amount of fear among everyone and further led to the rivalry and boosterism prevalent between New York City and Chicago during the 1866 cholera epidemic. On August 29, 1866, The Chicago Tribune reported that cholera deaths in New York were at a standstill, and reports extensively from an article from The New York World that “not...

  10. The Irish Riot on Saint Patrick’s Day
    date March 17, 1867map NEW YORK, New Yorktags Irish Immigration, St. Patrick's Day

    Four leaf clovers adorned the street corners of New York City, soft bagpipes in the background-accompanied fiddles, and the whiskey flowed forth with a seemingly endless supply. The stereotypes of St. Patrick’s Day are numerous, and all derogatory towards the Irish immigrants who migrated to this land for a better life than the turmoil they were facing due to the Great Famine. These images are nowhere...

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