Episodes Nearest to December 18, 1827 to December 19, 1827: 1 through 25 of 25

  1. Cartography and Map Printing in Richmond
    date December 18, 1827 to December 19, 1827map HENRICO, Virginiatags Education, Migration/Transportation

    The New Map of Virginia went on sale in the capitol city of Richmond on August 3, 1827. The Legislature of Virginia authorized the sale of only 250 maps, and required citizens of Virginia to submit an application in order to obtain a copy. The Richmond Enquirer claimed that the map reflects the highest credit on the science and skill of the persons immediately concerned in its...

  2. Sally Carter's Letter to her Mother
    date December 21, 1827map HENRICO, Virginiatags Arts/Leisure, Urban-Life/Boosterism, Women

    In late December of 1827, Sally Champs Carter, living in Richmond at the time, wrote home to her mother who was living in Albemarle County (approximately sixty miles west of Richmond). Sally described her living situation in the city, telling her mother that she participated in the gaieties of the city, however more moderately and prudently than she had in her first year residing there, as some...

  3. New York Town Criticized for Lack of Women's Education
    date January 16, 1828 to March, 1828map SENECA, New Yorktags Women's Seminaries, Education, women's education

    On January 16, 1828 The Geneva Gazette, a newspaper in Geneva, New York, published an article from an anonymous citizen. The article was addressed to the paper’s editor and criticized the lack of an adequate establishment for the education of young ladies in the town. The author argued that women’s education was necessary in order for women to better educate their children. Two months...

  4. Cotton crop produced at abnormally low numbers.
    date October 4, 1827map WAKE, North Carolinatags Agriculture, Economy

    The Southern economy thrived on its ability to sell cotton to England and other European nations. In 1827, the economy fell and fell hard. Throughout the South, farmers had to deal with as an Alabama farmer put it the “most disastrous season for the agriculturist'. The cotton states of South Carolina, North Carolina, Georgia and Virginia would all “fall far short of their usual...

  5. Surrender the Slave
    date October 3, 1827 to October 5, 1827map ST JOHNS, Floridatags Slavery

    Many southerners used slaves as collateral regularly in the antebellum south in order to pay for some necessary item or to loan money from someone. Often, slaves were used as collateral to buy land. This process of using slaves as collateral dates back to the beginning of the slave trade. The main reason why slaves were used as collateral is that southerners considered slaves to be property and...

  6. Yankees
    date December, 1827 to June 6, 1828map CHATHAM, Georgiatags Economy, Migration/Transportation

    In 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...

  7. The Southern Review
    date September 27, 1827map CHARLESTON, South Carolinatags Arts/Leisure, Economy, Education, Politics

    Robert Y. Haynes of Charleston, South Carolina sent a letter to Littleton Waller Tazewell of Norfolk, Virginia encouraging Tazewell to lead Virginians in participation via entries and subscriptions to the Southern Review. The hand-written letter is written on a brochure explaining the proposed Southern Review. The Southern Review was a literary magazine that would not criticize...

  8. The religious magazine announcement.
    date September 6, 1827map Washington City, District of Columbiatags Church/Religious-Activity

    On September 6th, 1827 the U.S. Telegraph happily announced to Washington D.C. the coming of a religious magazine, its first issue to be published for January 1st, 1828. The paper compared this new development much to the progress or “rapid improvement' being made in the field of science. This paper was to be in the “spirit of the foreign theological journals and review' of Europe....

  9. Our Indian Difficulties
    date May 19, 1828 to May 30, 1828map CHATHAM, Georgiatags African-Americans, Agriculture, Government, Law, Migration/Transportation, Native-Americans, Race-Relations, Slavery, Women

    People often want what they cannot have. At least, this was true in Georgia in 1828. On May 19, 1828 the Argus, a newspaper in Savannah, printed an extract of a letter from a member of Congress, to the Editor. In this letter the politician explained that the mood in Washington was changing in favor of removal of the Native Americans currently living where they had been for a long time on some of...

  10. Edgefield Anti-Tariff group meets.
    date July 2, 1827map EDGEFIELD, South Carolinatags Economy

    In early July, the spark of nullification struck Edgefield County and throughout the state of South Carolina. Citizens of the community met to discuss as the Charleston News and Courier put it: “A Memorial to Congress against the imposition of additional duties upon the importation of woolens.' Jesse Blocks was named Chair and F.H. Wardlaw Esq. was elected Secretary. Their statement...

  11. A Slave Sues for Freedom in Missouri
    date 1827map ST LOUIS, Missouritags Slavery, African-Americans, Law, Migration/Transportation

    In 1827, the editors of The Genius of Universal Emancipation published a portion of a letter "from a gentleman in Illinois to his friend in Philadelphia" that relates the story of a slave that was brought from Illinois to Missouri. The slave, "there having been treated with cruelty" was afterwards taken and sold in Louisiana. This slave then "found his way", in a manner unclear, back to St. Louis...

  12. Guilfield Baptist Church
    date June 30, 1827map DINWIDDIE, Virginiatags African-Americans, Church/Religious-Activity

    The church officials expelled Brother Osborne for his adulterous behavior June 30, 1827. The officials claimed that Brother Osborne's sinful spirit had placed the women of the Guilfield Baptist Church under bad influence. The same Sunday, the church notes documented the deacons asking Sister Harriet Hill to leave the congregation for lying, as well as Sister Patsy Thomas for fighting and inappropriate...

  13. Missionary Efforts Lead to Interracial Worship
    date 1828map WILLIAMSBURG, South Carolinatags Church/Religious-Activity, Slavery

    Mr. Charles C. Pickney, impressed by a Methodist overseer of slaves in Georgia, asked Reverend William Capers to acquire a Methodist exhorter to oversee his negroes in 1828. Instead, Mr. Capers proposed that Pickney apply to the Bishop and Missionary Board for a minister to be sent as a missionary and devote his time exclusively to the religious instruction and welfare of his slaves. Mr. Pickney...

  14. A New Hero Rises: Andrew Jackson and the Battle of New Orleans
    date 1828map SUFFOLK, Massachusetts, ORLEANS, Louisianatags Arts/Leisure, War

    When an individual's legacy spawns something as seemingly minute as a musical composition to be written in their honor, a new level of greatness has been achieved. Andrew Jackson was no stranger to this after growing into one of the most popular personas in America in his day and age. James Hewitt (1770-1827), a local composer that left England as a young man to begin his own American dream...

  15. A Spiritual Occurrence in the Household
    date June 1, 1827map HANCOCK, Georgiatags Church/Religious-Activity

    Maria Bryan returned from a prayer meeting to find her close friend, Carlisle, in a very emotional state. She immediately called upon her minister, Rev. Stiles. Rev. Stiles arrived and analyzed the problem and claimed that Maria and Carlisle needed to repent in the Lord in order to fulfill their complete redemption. Suddenly, without any forewarning, the preacher himself seemed to lose his mind...

  16. Dexter Needs to Pay Up
    date May 29, 1827map ST JOHNS, Floridatags Slavery

    A promissory note is a contract detailing the terms of a promise or loan by one person to pay a sum of money to another person. Many people in the antebellum south used promissory notes when dealing with large amounts of money. John Day and Horatio S. Dexter entered into a promissory note together on October 5, 1824. The amount of the note was for six thousand four hundred and seventy nine dollars....

  17. Phillis Wheatly and a Nations Refuge in Religion
    date May 23, 1827map SUFFOLK, Massachusettstags African-Americans, Church/Religious-Activity, Slavery, Urban-Life/Boosterism

    On May 23, 1827, more than forty years after it was first published, Phillis Wheatly's short poem, "On Being Brought from Africa to America," was republished in Zion's Herald, an independent Methodist newspaper published in Boston, Massachusetts. "Remember Christians Negroes black as Cain/May be refined, and join the angelic train": this last line of Wheatly's poem refers to her...

  18. Joseph M. White suggests Indians move west of the Mississippi.
    date May 20, 1827tags Migration/Transportation, Race-Relations

    After the native Indians were allotted reservation areas for settlement, problems quickly arise. Whites started trying to take over these areas (claiming to be looking for lost slaves), and Indians were trying to expand on their already very small territory. This led to substantial violence and bloodshed. One such example took place near the Ocilla River on December 6, 1826. The Woodville Republican...

  19. William Henson sentenced to death.
    date April 27, 1827 to May 3, 1827map WAKE, North Carolinatags African-Americans, Crime/Violence, Health/Death, Race-Relations

    On April 27th, 1827 a verdict was reached in the William Henson case. The court convicted this free black for “forcibly breaking into a house and stealing items of a small value.' His punishment was death, to be carried out on May 3rd. This punishment was certainly extreme for such a petty offense, but the court was using what was called the Bloody Act of 1806. This act as the Raleigh...

  20. Jane
    date July 14, 1828 to September 9, 1828map CHATHAM, Georgiatags African-Americans, Economy, Migration/Transportation, Race-Relations, Slavery, Women

    P. Wiltberger, while sitting at breakfast one morning, was interrupted by his overseer. The overseer angrily informed Wiltberger that Jane, one of Wiltberger's slaves, was missing. Other slaves were being questioned but so far, the overseer could find out nothing. Incensed, Wiltberger questioned his slaves further, but to no avail. He then picked up his pen and proceeded to write an advertisement...

  21. Tobacco booms in Missouri.
    date April 24, 1827map ST LOUIS, Missouritags Agriculture, Economy

    The expansion of slavery into Missouri had almost led to a Civil War in 1820, seven years later Northerners worst fears were confirmed with a report by Missouri leaders. The St. Louis Enquirer published an article that would soon be republished throughout the South trumpeting the success of tobacco crops in the newest slave state. The soil of Missouri was considered by planters of Maryland and...

  22. A Summit to Discuss Internal Improvements
    date July, 1828 to September, 1828map ALBEMARLE, Virginiatags Economy, Politics, Migration/Transportation

    On July 15 1828, Virginians gathered in Charlottesville to discuss the question of whether the State of Virginia shall herself make her own Internal Improvements, or resign that duty, with all its important political and pecuniary interests to a foreign Corporation. The specific concern those in meeting grappled with was the fact that in March 1827 the General Assembly provided a charter for corporation...

  23. Cyclone Ravages Charleston
    date August 24, 1828 to August 25, 1828map CHARLESTON, South Carolinatags Agriculture, Economy, Health/Death

    In the early morning of August 25th, 1885, dark clouds began to roll in over Charleston. The wind began to blow, lightly at first, then steadily increasing in strength as morning drew nearer. Rain began to fall, harder and harder, until water levels rose all over the city. The weather grew steadily worse throughout the night, and the storm from the Atlantic Ocean moved in. According to one Charleston...

  24. A Polite Education
    date September 18, 1828map CHATHAM, Georgiatags Arts/Leisure, Economy, Education, Women

    Education for women in the Antebellum South played a key role in defining and regulating social status. Many Southerners did not see education as a way to enlighten women, but rather to refine and polish them, and make them more suitable for marriage. In the Argus newspaper, published in Savannah, Georgia, an advertisement appeared in September of 1828. It announced Mr. Phillips's new school...

  25. Hints On Female Education
    date October 1, 1828map RICHLAND, South Carolinatags Education, Women

    In the words of Dr. Elias Marks, "Intellectual cultivation leads to a knowledge and systematic performance of our duties." Thus, he concluded in his work title "Hints on Female Education," a woman's mind must be cultivated in order for her to perform her duties as a wife and mother to her greatest ability. The work also coincided with an outline for a female educational institution near Columbia,...