Episodes Nearest to October 20, 1829: 1 through 25 of 25
- Richmond and Baltimore Union Line of Stages and Steamboats
October 20, 1829
HENRICO, Virginia
Migration/TransportationThe proprietors of the Richmond and Baltimore Union Line of Stages and Steamboats by Tappahannock placed a notice in the Richmond Enquirer in October of 1829 with the intent of informing the public of the on-going operation of their line of service. The posting boasted of the best of coaches and horses, the experienced drivers, and the best accommodations. Good roads and no nighttime land travel...
- Louden County addresses Virginia Convention of 1829-1830
October, 1829
LOUDOUN, Virginia
LawIn a broadside addressing the Memorialists and other members of the Virginia Reframing Convention of 1829, the Memorial of the non-freeholders and freeholders of the county of Loudoun' beseeched the assembly to reframe or amend the constitution of Virginia so as to allow all free men the right to vote. The invoked images of their forefathers rising up to fight the injustice of taxation...
- Louisiana's Ripe Climate
November 18, 1829
FELICIANA, Louisiana
EconomyIn a letter to his friend Richard Harlan, John Audubon related the beauty of his surroundings in Louisiana. Audubon followed his passion and sailed up the Mississippi, intent to paint all the birds of North America. The land in Louisiana teemed with life and gave Audubon plenty of subjects to base his paintings off of. Audubon recognized the richness of the terrain in Louisiana, a feature that had...
- Students Set Fires
November 26, 1829
ALBEMARLE, Virginia
Crime/Violence, EducationOn November 26, 1829, Thomas Goode Tucker, a student at the University of Virginia, was alerted of a very dangerous situation on grounds. In a letter to his father, approximately a month later, he recounted how some students set fire to an outhouse. Tucker heard of the fire, and as soon as word reached him, he ran to the scene where a large group of people were gathered, almost all of them gasping...
- The Foundation of Tennessee Colonization Society and the First Freed Slaves to Leave Tennessee
December, 1829
DAVIDSON, Tennessee
African-Americans, Race-Relations, SlaveryIn December 1829, Josiah F. Polk and Philip Lindsey created the Tennessee Colonization Society in Nashville. Polk and Lindsey's society was a branch of the American Colonization Society whose goal was to repatriate free slaves to Liberia in Africa. They started to try to convince free slaves to leave the United States as soon as the Society was created in 1829. If the slaves were not free, members...
- Fine for teaching African American to read is raised to 500 in Georgia
December 22, 1829
BALDWIN, Georgia
African-Americans, Crime/Violence, Education, SlaveryIn 1829, the fine for teaching an African-American (slave or free) was raised to the exorbitant sum of 500. This figure was far higher than in many other states (for example: 100-200 in North Carolina). This law applied to slave and free blacks. Even a father could be fined for teaching his own child to read. This law was influenced by the appearance of David Walker's Appeals to the Colored...
- A Clash of Views over Indian Removal
August 12, 1829 to August 13, 1829
TALBOT, Maryland
Government, Politics, Migration/Transportation, Native-AmericansThe Republican Star and General Advertiser of Easton, Maryland published an article on August 12, 1829 regarding Indian removal. The Easton article responded to the essay written by William Penn published in The National Intelligencer of Washington on July 17, 1829. Penn's essay discussed the need to exterminate the Indians in order to allow for expansion into the West. The...
- Sam Houston writes letter encouraging settlement of Texas
December 31, 1829
Migration/TransportationIn December of 1829, Houston had narrowly prevented the abolition of slavery in Texas. On September 15th (in honor of Mexican independence) President Guerrero had sent out a proclamation abolishing slavery throughout the Republic. The object of this was to check emigration from the US. At this time there were over 1000 slaves in Texas, so Houston obviously fought the application of this proclamation...
- An African Colony in Canada
January 1, 1830
CHARLES, Maryland
African-Americans, Government, Race-RelationsAs early as 1816, Maryland and other Southern states pleaded with the federal government to procure a site for the colonization of free blacks. Within the next two decades the American Colonization Society formed chapters in Maryland and other Southern states. Many chapters of the American Colonization Society advocated the creation of Liberia, an area on the tip of Africa, as a homeland for freed...
- Frederick Douglass and his dream to escape
January 1, 1830
BALTIMORE, Maryland
African-Americans, Slavery"I was only a slave; my wishes were nothing, and my happiness was the sport of my masters." During Frederick Douglass's life he experienced separation from his family, the death of both an old friend and his grandmother, and his escape from slavery. In his early twenties, Frederick Douglass was sent to Baltimore to serve a farmer named Captain Antony, but after Captain Anthony's death his...
- Tennessee Internal Improvements Bill
January 2, 1830
DAVIDSON, Tennessee
Economy, Migration/Transportation, Urban-Life/BoosterismOn January 2, 1830, the state of Tennessee passed an Act to establish a board of Internal Improvement, and set apart one hundred and fifty thousand dollars to be appropriated to the improvement of the navigable rivers and other objects of Internal Improvement in (the) state,' as reported by the Knoxville Register on January 27, to be divided on various works across the state. Designed...
- Settlers and Slavery
January 2, 1830
TERRITORY, Territory
African-Americans, Economy, Government, Politics, Race-Relations, SlaveryThe steamboat made it safely over the sand bar and arrived at the mouth of the Brazos River in Texas. Upon landing, William Hunter quickly composed a letter to his business associate James Perry to give tidings of his safe arrival. Hunter noted to Perry the presence of 30 Negroes on board and wrote of his plan to inquire of the owner, a settler from Alabama, about the means of their transport into...
- American Colonization of Texas
January 8, 1830
Migration/TransportationWhat became the state of Texas was in 1830 still a part of the nation of Mexico. However, for many years Mexico had been encouraging U.S. citizens to emigrate and settle what to the Mexican government was its far away northern provinces -- provinces that were sparsely settled and thus perfect for the Americans. As the Baltimore American and Commercial Advertiser reports on January 8, 1830, the...
- Recolonization and the Free Black Controversy
January 14, 1830
FRANKLIN, Kentucky
African-Americans, Migration/Transportation, SlaveryThe Census of 1830 reported that out of a total of population of 12,858,670 people, there were 2,009,050 enslaved and 319,576 free blacks. It is no wonder, therefore, that in what is still primarily a slave-based economy, especially in the South, Americans began to wonder what to do with this growing free black population. After all, how could formerly enslaved blacks fit into white society when...
- Report on the Louisville-Portland Canal
January 15, 1830
JEFFERSON, Kentucky
Economy, Migration/Transportation, Urban-Life/BoosterismOn January 15, 1830, the Baltimore American and Commercial Advertiser included a report respecting the state and progress of this important work,' the Louisville-Portland Canal, and the specific methods and requirements of its construction. Finished later in 1830, the Canal, which stretches mostly through Kentucky, allowed steamboat travel to avoid the impassable Ohio River Falls and continue...
- Senate Debate on the Tariff and the Proper Role of the Federal Government
January 18, 1830 to January 27, 1830
WASHINGTON, Maryland
EconomyWhen Senator Samuel Foot of Connecticut introduced a bill to limit the sale of Western lands to reduce tensions with Native-Americans and to slow the spread of slavery, he probably knowingly set off a fury among Southern land speculators and agriculturalists. This, in combination with the Tariff of 1828 -- which many Southerners saw as a direct assault on their well being -- was seen as a violation...
- Murder and Runaways
January 30, 1830
EAST BATON ROUG, Louisiana
African-Americans, Crime/Violence, Health/Death, Race-Relations, SlaveryMany slaves throughout the 1800's sought to escape bondage in any way they could, and though this usually resulted in them running away, occasionally they turned to a more extreme means of escape. The Baton Rouge Gazette reports on January 30, 1830, that on Saturday night last about 10 o'clock Mr. John Whitten was killed by one of his own slaves, by a discharge from a musket loaded...
- Randolph-Macon College founded
February 3, 1830
MECKLENBURG, Virginia
Church/Religious-Activity, EducationOn January 1st, 1830, a bill was placed before the Virginia legislature to incorporate the Trustees of Randolph Macon College'' as reported by the Richmond Enquirer on February 4, 1830. Passed on February 3, the bill established a college at Boydton, Virginia, near the border with North Carolina. Though founded by Virginia Methodists, according to Randolph Macon's website...
- Debts Against the Estate
1829
ST JOHNS, Florida
SlaveryFrancis Pellicer had six heirs to his estate. In his will he divided his estate between his children. Dividing one's property up in a will was very common in the antebellum south. Most plantation owners, if not all, wrote up some sort of will to divide their estate up so their children and widow could have some type of inheritance. Slaves and property, such as land, were two types of things...
- Zephaniah Kingsley and His Treatise on a Patriarchal Society
1829
Florida, Florida
Zephaniah Kingsley, Argument for Slavery in FloridaZephaniah Kingsley was a plantation owner on Fort George Island, now Jacksonville, FL. In his "Treatise of Patriarchal, or Co-operative System of Society", Kingsley spoke of the use of slaves in southern states as the only answer to agricultural production because the white people of the region were not created to work within the area. He used the argument...
- Patriarchal Slave System: How it worked
1829
RICHMOND, Virginia
Zephaniah Kingsley, Slavery, Patriarchy
”Patriarchy is a system where males are the head of the family and have all the rights of decision-making,”a system that has persisted for many years in American History. Patriarchy was not only used in government bodies, but it was also used in determining a slave child’s fate. In A Treatise on the Patriarchal or Co-Operative System of Society a humble servant by the name of Z. Kingsley... - Philosophy of Education through the Lens of Catharine E. Beecher
1829
HARTFORD, Connecticut
Roles of Women, women's educationDuring the early nineteenth century, women became the center of the family—nurturing and educating their children. Catharine E. Beecher’s essay, Suggestions Respecting Improvements in Education, became relevant as she characterized a woman’s role as the teacher and caretaker of the household. In her essay, she connected a woman’s domestic life with education, and provided...
- Steamboat Explosion Rattles Legislation
February 24, 1830
SHELBY, Tennessee
Agriculture, Economy, Government, Health/Death, Law, Migration/TransportationWith a sound "resembling the discharge of a small piece of artillery" and "the rushing sound of steam, and the rattling of glass", the starboard boiler on the steamboat Helen McGregor exploded on February 24, 1830 on the Memphis waterfront. In The Mariner's Chronicle, one gentleman on board described the scene in the boiler room as a "complete wreck - a picture of destruction". He...
- South Carolina Jockey Club 1830 Race
February 23, 1830 to March 1, 1830
CHARLESTON, South Carolina
Arts/Leisure, Migration/Transportation, Urban-Life/BoosterismThe advertisements started early in the year for the South Carolina Jockey Club's Annual Horse Race. News of the event was spread to New York and Virginia, as this was known to be one of the biggest social events of the season. The races lasted for several days, ending in a ball that topped all social events of the season and culminated in the election of the new slate of officers. The Charleston...
- Mounted Infantry Bill
March 13, 1830
Crime/Violence, Economy, Race-Relations, WarOn March 23, 1830, Senator Thomas Benton of Missouri introduced what he called the Mounted Infantry Bill, calling for ten companies of cavalry to be recruited and used to patrol the Santa Fe Trail. The Trail, which was an overland trade route between St. Louis, Missouri, and Santa Fe, New Mexico, was critical to the growing economy of Missouri. It had resulted in a tremendous amount of trade through...