Episodes Nearest to January 1, 1828 to December 31, 1828: 1 through 25 of 25

  1. 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...

  2. 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...

  3. 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...

  4. 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...

  5. 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...

  6. 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...

  7. 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...

  8. 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,...

  9. 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...

  10. 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...

  11. 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...

  12. 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...

  13. Kentucky's Senate passes joint resolution to colonize “free people of color'
    date January, 1829map FRANKLIN, Kentuckytags African-Americans, Migration/Transportation, Race-Relations

    In January, the Cherokee Phoenix and Indians' Advocate reported the outcome of the Kentucky State Senate's Joint Resolution. There were only three dissenting votes against these two measures. The first measure urged Kentucky's statesmen in Washington to endeavor Congress to appropriate money and aid, “so far is consistent with the Constitution of the United States, in colonizing...

  14. A Trying Voyage
    date January 27, 1829map TERRITORY, Territorytags African-Americans, Health/Death, Migration/Transportation, Race-Relations, Slavery

    Sunday morning, January 27, 1829... a joyful thankfulness filled our hearts, for we were entering the land of promise. Mary Wightman Helm had good reason to rejoice after a most difficult journey to Texas. Helm related that the trip usually took a bearable seven days, but left without a breeze in the unpredictable Gulf of Mexico, her voyage took an astonishing 31 days. The ship only carried provisions...

  15. Twenty Dollar Reward for Return of Slave
    date February 3, 1829map HENRICO, Virginiatags African-Americans, Migration/Transportation, Race-Relations, Slavery

    In February of 1829, WM. F. Wickham put out a notice in the Richmond Enquirer of a twenty dollar reward for the return to him of his slave Cyrus. He described Cyrus as a dark mulatto, between 25 and 30 years of age, rather below ordinary height, prominent cheek bones... He also said that Cyrus had a large scar under one of his eyes, and that he owned a new suit of brown cloth... and a striped...

  16. Tobacco Sales
    date February 3, 1829map HENRICO, Virginiatags Agriculture

    In February of 1829, a salesman named H.B. Montague posted an ad in the Richmond Enquirer advertising his services as a middleman in the sales of tobacco. Montague had taken out the official license to do this, which cost him sixty dollars. He also went into detail on his past doings in this realm, recalling how he began this enterprise when no one else would, and incurred losses at first, but he...

  17. A Clever Child Escapes Flogging
    date February 11, 1829map FREDERICK, Marylandtags Education

    A well-prepared young man demonstrated ingenuity and intelligence when his father presented him with the threat of flogging. The boy's father was a lieutenant in the US Army, a native of Frederick County, Maryland. Being a lieutenant meant that he was somewhat strict, but all he wanted was the best for his son. When the boy displeased his father, the father examined the cause of his misconduct...

  18. House of Representatives drafts bill for the relief of James Monroe
    date February 25, 1829map Washington City, District of Columbiatags Urban-Life/Boosterism

    When a memorial of the citizens of Albemarle County, Virginia asked Congress to reconsider James Monroe's claims to reimbursement a Select Committee was formed. The Select committee did indeed find that the U.S. Government was indeed indebted to Monroe for his considerable and patriotic loans to the government during the War of 1812. The bill (No. 436) resolved to give the late president the...

  19. Penitentiary law of 1829 passed by Governor Carroll
    date January, 1829 to April, 1829map DAVIDSON, Tennesseetags Crime/Violence, Urban-Life/Boosterism

    When Governor Carroll passed this new “Penitentiary Law,' many considered it to be truly revolutionary. This law completely transformed punishment in the state of Tennessee. For example, whipping posts, stocks, and cropping were abolished. Instead of being put to death for many crimes, hard labor in a penitentiary was now the punishment. Another key component of the law was the formation...

  20. 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...

  21. Patty Cannon captured
    date March, 1829 to April, 1829map SUSSEX, Delawaretags African-Americans, Crime/Violence, Slavery

    From 1800-1830 Patty Cannon and other members of her family ran the most notorious slave trading gang in Southern History. Cannon's house straddled the Maryland-Delaware border, and from this base she and her gang would look around for free or enslaved blacks, kidnap them, and then sell them into slavery to Deep South Plantations. This formidable woman, who was notorious for her strength and...

  22. 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...

  23. 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...

  24. The Alabama State Intelligencer established
    date April 10, 1829map TUSCALOOSA, Alabamatags Arts/Leisure, Education, Urban-Life/Boosterism

    In Alabama's new capital of Tuscaloosa, the Alabama State Intelligencer was established on April 10th, 1829. This event was important not only for being the founding of a new paper, but this event also marked the growing role of Tuscaloosa in Alabama. In fact, the capital had recently been moved from Cahaba to Tuscaloosa and in 1829 the legislature met for the first time in the new capital (Alabama:...

  25. Formation of Nashville and Davidson County Temperance Society
    date April, 1829map DAVIDSON, Tennesseetags Church/Religious-Activity

    Many prominent Nashvillians, including Phillip Lindsley, William Hume, and Robert Whyte, formed The Nashville and Davidson County Temperance Society. This society was formed as an auxiliary to the American Temperance Society. The American Temperance Society grew rapidly during this time period and many new auxiliaries appeared. The spread of a national temperance society reveals the growing importance...