Throughout the eighteenth and nineteenth Centuries, Fauquier County was a county with many African American slaves. However, Fauquier County was a county with a few freed African Americans. In 1820, the Fauquier County Census counted 11,167 slaves and 507 freed African Americans. In 1830, there were 12,612 slaves and only 621 freed African Americans. Therefore, in those 10 years, the number of slaves...
Martin Van Buren, a Democrat from New York and Vice President to Southerner Andrew Jackson was a questionable figure in the nineteenth- century South. His motives and ideas were unclear and not exactly in-line with everything that the South stood for during this time. He voted for Free Negro Suffrage; the South could not place a finger on the reasons behind his vote, resulting in an unstable opinion...
In 1820, Joseph McMinn, a farmer, state legislator, Indian agent, and governor, and Felix Grundy, a Congressman, U.S. Senator and Nashville Democrat leader, suggested to create a New Bank of the State of Tennessee; it was the central feature of his program while he was candidate for a seat in the state senate. This bank was supposed to be better than the old one, based in Knoxville: the state should...
Compromises concerning slavery, states’ rights, and economical issues were created to satisfy the North and South, but were not sufficient enough to ease the differences to prevent the Civil War. The nineteenth century marked the westward movement of many American settlers and revealed the sectional differences among the North and South. In Stephen Oates’ novel, The Approaching Fury,...
The Mansion House in the town of Greenville, South Carolina was erected in 1820 on South Main Street, where it successfully functioned as a hotel. John Nolan included a drawing of this Greenville hotspot in his book A Guide to Historic Greenville, which allows his readers to peek back at forgotten times. The Mansion House was not just any hotel, as every notable who had to visit Greenville...
The shadows of the trees over-casted the lone road, a single man on horseback patrolling down. He was finishing his late night rounds for the evening, anxious to get home to his family. He was heading down a road to look for any suspicious activity when there was a ruslting in the bushes along the side of the road. He froze and looked over, and saw someone dart out into the road. It was a teenager,...
Jean Lafitte's mean have attacked again Pirates in Louisiana Again? Hide the valuables
These were a few thoughts that went through the minds of the citizens that read the newspaper of St. Francisville on January 8, 1820. An articles reported the robbery of a station in Attackapas by three men associated with the legendary pirate, Jean Lafitte. To the readers' relief, the article related...
The beginning of the nineteenth century brought significant misfortune to Savannah, Georgia. While the city struggled to achieve public improvements and increase urban development, a disproportionate number of natural disasters struck, such as the hurricane of 1804. Incidents of yellow fever and cholera outbreak resulted in large-scale mortality and interference with business. A vast fire, “on...
In a letter to her father, Louisiana Cocke wrote that she missed him and was looking forward to his return. Louisiana wrote, I begin to be quite impatient for your return, as I am anxious to return to my studies... This demonstrates the close relationship of General Cocke and his daughter. He also apparently, served as her tutor while he was home. Families in the antebellum South were close- knit...
As the United States' population exploded, the government continued to look westward to expand the country's wealth, power, and size. In some cases, US explorers tried to live alongside Native-Americans who called the West their home, but hostility from both peoples often caused conflict. Americans embraced the mindset that not only was it acceptable, but it was even their duty to organize...