NEW YORK, New York in the 1860s: 1 through 4 of 4
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February 21, 1862
NEW YORK, New York
Crime/Violence, Law, SlaveryThe most infamous of slave traders, Captain Nathaniel Gordon was finally brought to justice, and the significance of that event was reported and commented on at length in the March 8, 1862 edition of Harper's Weekly summarizing from accounts in the Times and Herald. This was an important event because the international slave trade had been considered piracy but had not been prosecuted due to the existence...
November 8, 1862
NEW YORK, New York
Politics, Slavery, WomenReaction to the Emancipation Proclamation, even among the common folk, was mixed and often violent. A letter to the Editor of the Harper's Weekly and published in the November 8, 1862 edition describes one reader's personal experience with such a reaction from a neighbor. Charity Grimes writes that her neighbor, Sarah Blue, and she do not always agree but on this one occasion Blue had come storming...
January 1, 1867
NEW YORK, New York
Arts/Leisure, Education, Government, WarMany Southerners before the Civil War viewed the Northerners as tyrants similar to King George III. In War Poetry of the South, "Poet Laureate of the Confederacy" Henry Timrod wrote "Carolina" and the words on page 113: The despot treads thy sacred sands, Thy pines give shelter to his bands, Thy sons stand by with idle hands, Carolina Without a date, one might believe Timrod wrote this poem to describe...
1867
NEW YORK, New York
Arts/Leisure, War, WomenWilliam Gilmore Simms accredited the women of the South with winning the Civil War. He dedicated War Poetry of the South (published in both 1866 and 1867) to the women who had "shown themselves worthy of any manhood" through their "virtuous effort and womanly endurance." He applauded mothers, sisters, and wives for their displays of courage and endurance even while they sacrificed everything for...
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