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  1. Mississippi Passes a State Civil Rights Bill
    date February 27, 1873map HINDS, Mississippitags African-Americans, Race-Relations

    During the time of Reconstruction, strong Republican parties grew as a result of heavy reliance of blacks as their constituency. Generating the overwhelming majority of the party's votes, blacks became the majority of the electorate in Southern states, such as South Carolina, Louisiana, and Mississippi. As the black support increased, it was clear that policies and enactments had to be geared towards...

  2. Threat of Slave Rebellion
    date July 24, 1841map WEST FELICIANA, Louisianatags African-Americans, Agriculture, Crime/Violence, Race-Relations, Slavery

    In a letter to his father John C. Burruss on July 24, 1841, John W. Burruss asked, ...do we not dwell in constant danger, are we not standing, rather [lying] down - sleeping on a smothered - not extinguished - volcano? John W. Burruss was expressing his fear of slave revolt, a fear he shared with many southern plantation owners. In his letter Burruss described a discovered slave revolt in West Felicia...

  3. Republican vs. Republican for Mississippi Governor
    date September 22, 1873 to November 4, 1873map HINDS, Mississippitags African-Americans, Race-Relations

    On September 25, the Louisville Courier Journal wrote, “The most interesting campaign now in progress in any state is on the boards in Mississippi.' Why? First, there was no Democratic candidate in a Deep South State, and second, there were two Republicans , one a scalawag, the other a carpetbagger , running for the position. In August of 1873, Adelbert Ames was nominated for governor of Mississippi...

  4. Mississippi election of 1879
    date November 4, 1879map HINDS, Mississippitags Race-Relations

    The Mississippi election of 1879 served as a reaffirmation of Bourbon power in the wake of the Greenback challenge to Democratic hegemony. The results of the November 4, 1879 were that the Democrats were once again able to assert political dominance over the state through voter fraud and intimidation. Moreover, the 12,000 vote total registered for the Greenback Party in the 1878 elections declined...

  5. Dispute with Slave Trader
    date October, 1841map ADAMS, Mississippitags African-Americans, Race-Relations, Slavery

    In 1841, R. Ballard, a slave trader who owned property in Mississippi, brought a Federal suit against Henry Turner, claiming the Turner owed him 6,300 dollars. The bill was the remainder owed for forty-two slaves that Ballard had sold to Turner in 1835. Unfortunately for Ballard, Turner was quite unhappy with his purchase. He returned seven of the slaves to Ballard, declaring that they were either...

  6. The Loss of a Steamboat
    date September, 1842map ADAMS, Mississippitags Agriculture, Economy, Migration/Transportation

    In September 1842, the Vicksburg, a steamboat, was headed for New Orleans. On board were 145 bales of John A. Quitman's cotton. However, only 17 of the bales actually reached New Orleans as expected. The Vicksburg had an accident, and one hundred and twenty eight of Quitman's bales were unaccounted for. An accident such as this would have been very bad news for any southern plantation owner. Fortunately...

  7. Southern Democrats reduce spending of State Governments
    date April, 1875 to May, 1875map JACKSON, Mississippitags Economy

    Led by mostly straight Democrats, many southern states including Mississippi and Alabama reduced their economic cost in 1875. The point of these operations was to return the states to fiscal balance and regain power, abolishing their debts. These southern states halted the funding and economic partnership with the railroads, reducing their economic leverage. They also shrank the size and cost of the...

  8. 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...

  9. Mississippi Democrats enact the “Mississippi Plan'
    date May, 1875 to November, 1875map JACKSON, Mississippitags African-Americans, Race-Relations

    Led by James Z. George and L.Q.C Lamar, Mississippi Democrats made plans to drive the local Republicans from office. The plan was to lure freedman with promises of protected civil rights and to threaten those who remained faithful to the Republicans. By the summer of 1875 the Democrats had created extralegal militias to encourage conversion by means of violence and intimidation. This followed the...

  10. A Murderous Education
    date 1846map ADAMS, Mississippitags Education, Government

    Around 1846, the students of Centenary College decided to take a stand. Fifty-three of the pupils signed a petition for the removal of a professor from their institute of higher education. In adding their names to the list, the students accused Professor Jones of, participating in ... the shooting of the boys Unfortunately, the petition gave no further explanation of the alleged incident. However,...

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