Harriet Beecher Stowe just published Dred: A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp in 1856. In the book, Stowe posits that slavery caused the corrosion of society. Dred is the second book by Stowe that centered on the topic of slavery. Stowe's first work, Uncle Tom's Cabin which was published in 1853, also addressed the issue of slavery and highlighted the institutions' inadequacies. Raised in Connecticut,...
The resolution by Congress was in response to a January 14th publication of the American Society for Colonizing the free people of colour of the United States. Their letter to Congress was very condescending to the blacks who they were trying to help. They noted that despite the fact that in Africa they had had access to large tracts of land, fertile soil, and other rich natural resources, they had...
Boxing was extremely popular in the South, especially during the 1880s and early 1890s. The national center of boxing was in New Orleans, and the height of 19th-century American boxing occurred in September 1892. In that month, New Orleans's Olympic Club staged three world championship fights. On September 5, the fights began. The crowd was very large and varied. Representatives from every state...
The Homestead Strike was a series of labor confrontations that occurred for nearly five months in 1892 in Homestead, Pennsylvania. On June 30, 1892, a three-year contract with the National Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers expired. The Carnegie Steel Company, managed at this time by Henry Clay Frick, attempted to cut the wages of the skilled steel workers. When the workers refused...