Episodes Around: 18280519 to 18280530

  1. 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...

  2. 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...

  3. 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...

  4. 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...