Episodes Around: 18280714 to 18280909
- Missionary Efforts Lead to Interracial Worship
1828
WILLIAMSBURG, South Carolina
Church/Religious-Activity, SlaveryMr. 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...
- A New Hero Rises: Andrew Jackson and the Battle of New Orleans
1828
SUFFOLK, Massachusetts, ORLEANS, Louisiana
Arts/Leisure, WarWhen 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...
- A Summit to Discuss Internal Improvements
July, 1828 to September, 1828
ALBEMARLE, Virginia
Economy, Politics, Migration/TransportationOn 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...
- Jane
July 14, 1828 to September 9, 1828
CHATHAM, Georgia
African-Americans, Economy, Migration/Transportation, Race-Relations, Slavery, WomenP. 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...