Episodes Around: 18271201 to 18280606
- Yankees
December, 1827 to June 6, 1828
CHATHAM, Georgia
Economy, Migration/TransportationIn the Antebellum South, before railroads were widely used, Southern societies did not encounter people from other places very often. An anonymous man wrote a letter to the editor of The Argus in the summer of 1828, and in his etter he clearly demonstrated his inherent mistrust of outsiders. This man owned a boarding house and was writing to the paper in search of a solution to a problem...