Episodes Nearest to January 1, 1830 to December 31, 1836: 1 through 25 of 25

  1. The Thirteen Sisters of Julia Street
    date 1833map ORLEANS, Louisianatags Town Home, gentrification, Urban-Life/Boosterism, Architecture, Arts/Leisure

    The thirteen sisters of Julia Street started a new trend. These "sisters" were a row of thirteen side-hall style town houses that spanned the 600 block of Julia Street in New Orleans. Upon their construction by the New Orleans Building Company in 1833, they were among first rows constructed in the side-hall, or London-plan, manner most commonly seen in Philadelphia and Baltimore. The exteriors...

  2. William Wilberforce's Acts of Abolition
    date January, 1833 to December, 1833map PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvaniatags Abolition, Slavery

    William Wilberforce was only one among many men who south to abolish the transatlantic slave trade throughout his lifetime. He was a British politician who began his political career by becoming an independent member of Parliament for Yorkshire, where he learned how to debate and express ideas. During his time there, he also became an evangelistic Christian. He grew eager to...

  3. Jealous Lover Receives Death Penalty
    date June 29, 1833map CLARKE, Georgiatags Crime/Violence, Law

    The Southern Banner wrote of the murder of Mrs. Mary W. Hamilton. This was a trial about love and madness, craze put into action. Joel Cough had claimed that he loved Mrs. Hamilton, but he felt that she would never reciprocate his feelings. According to the article, written by an official in the court, Clough selfishly murdered Mrs. Hamilton and ensured that Mrs. Hamilton would never again...

  4. Cholera Epidemic Along Red River
    date July 25, 1833map NATCHITOCHES, Louisianatags African-Americans, Agriculture, Health/Death, Economy, Slavery

    Massive numbers of people were dying in the summer of 1833, but luckily, Edward George Washington Butler assured his father-in-law in Virginia, he and his family of Iberville, Louisiana were so far unaffected. Cholera was sweeping through the state. Outbreaks in the East had already occurred on the St. Lawrence River, in New York City, and Philadelphia in 1832, reaching New Orleans a year later,...

  5. Abolitionist Flogged for Allegedly Selling Pamphlets
    date August 3, 1833 to August 9, 1833map DAVIDSON, Tennesseetags Slavery, Race Relations, Crime/Violence

    Amos Dresser, a student at Lane Theological Seminary in Cincinnati, left the college after a ban on an anti-slavery society and traveled through the upper south selling bibles. While travelling through Nashville, Tennessee, Dresser took his carriage to a local shop for repairs. A workman rummaging through the carriage found a store of anti-slavery letters, books and pamphlets. According to Dresser,...

  6. Sheriff James Herndon Presents a Sale
    date April 6, 1833map CLARKE, Georgiatags Economy, Slavery, Women

    In April, 1833, Sheriff James Herndon of Clark County presented a sale, printed in the Southern Banner newspaper, designated to occur the following month. Within his announcement, he introduced his sale of property, and then he listed three groups of property that he planned to sell. His first set only contained slaves: Milley, age 22, her two children, Mary, age five, Henry, age three or four,...

  7. Return to Religion
    date October 17, 1833map PRINCE EDWARD, Virginiatags Church/Religious-Activity

    In 1823 James Andrew Riddick was sent by his parents from North Carolina to Suffolk, Virginia so that he could be brought up a merchant. While in Suffolk, Riddick studied under a Mr. Wright, from whom he learned about and gained interest in religion. Riddick later moved to Prince Edward County, Virginia where he kept an elaborate journal of his daily life. While in Prince Edward County, Riddick...

  8. Charleston Women Discuss Support of States Rights
    date January 7, 1833map CHARLESTON, South Carolinatags Economy, Government, Slavery, War, Women

    Women like Laura Margaret Cole Smith of South Carolina were not blind to the implications of politics for the Union as a whole. Upon receiving news of the 1832 Nullification Crisis, Laura wrote to her cousin Camille explaining her opinions on the state of the Union. Smith held steadfastly to her belief in South Carolina's states rights. Although the prospect of war saddened her because her father...

  9. Alexander Rives Asks James Madison for Advice about Nullification and Secession
    date December 28, 1832 to January 12, 1833map ALBEMARLE, Virginiatags Government, Law, Politics

    In the early 1830s two of the most pressing questions in the nation were the issues of nullification and secession. A common trend among politicians was to use the ideas of the founders to argue both for and against these ideas, hence it is not surprising that on December 28, 1832 Alexander Rives, a Virginia lawyer, wrote to James Madison, one of the last surviving Founding Fathers, seeking council...

  10. Human Property
    date January 1, 1833map CAMDEN, Georgiatags African-Americans, Agriculture, Economy, Migration/Transportation, Race-Relations, Slavery

    On January 1, 1833, when Charles Manigault moved slaves from another plantation he owned to Gowrie Plantation, several miles up stream from Savannah Georgia, he left neat columns of names to inventory his property, while at the same time, putting brackets around each slave family. Furthermore, next to each slave's name he wrote descriptions. Not physical descriptions but personality traits....

  11. Botanical Drops and Disease in the South
    date December 29, 1832map FAYETTE, Kentuckytags Health/Death, Science/Technology

    "A child of 8 years had lost the use of his arms, one leg was almost crippled, hip popped out of place, thigh and arms swollen..." wrote a journalist for the Kentucky Gazette. The list of this young boy's maladies continues in the article. One would think this boy had no hope for survival from whatever illness had attacked his young body. However, "on taking these Drops he recovered...

  12. John C. Calhoun Resigns as Vice-President of the United States
    date December 28, 1832map RICHLAND, South Carolinatags Economy

    John C. Calhoun led an ambitious political life. He sat in James Monroe's Cabinet in the 1810s and 1820s. Then, in the hotly contested presidential election of 1824, Calhoun ran, but resigned himself to second place, where he neatly fit in as John Quincy Adams' vice president. In a time when political party affiliations were never stable, Calhoun aligned himself with Andrew Jackson half-way...

  13. Runaway Slaves and Missing Steers... Equality Under Southern Law
    date December 28, 1832map NORFOLK CITY, Virginiatags African-Americans, Economy, Law, Race-Relations, Slavery

    Slave owners and merchants reading the December 28, 1832 edition of the American Beacon gazed with curiosity at the plethora of goods available for sale in the local market. Advertisements present in the Norfolk-based newspaper attempted to sell goods such as Christmas supplies, hats, and chlorine tooth wash. While these impersonal objects were goods commonly traded and sold in...

  14. Binding Contracts
    date December 20, 1832map PRINCESS ANNE, Virginiatags African-Americans, Economy, Law, Race-Relations, Slavery

    Mary James had in front of her a valuable contract of exchange that would benefit her a great deal; She was to acquire 775 worth of goods in this posthumous division of James Henley's property. In this particular transaction, however, others' loss far outweighed her gain. The property divided was Henley's eight slaves, valued from 50 for the young to 350 for the adults. These enslaved...

  15. Virginia Governor John Floyds Thoughts on Nullification
    date December 19, 1832map BEDFORD, Virginiatags Diplomacy/International, Government, Politics, War

    Virginia residents opened up their newspapers one morning in December 1832 and discovered an address from the governor, John Floyd. He wrote to the Virginia Senate and House of Delegates in regards to the South Carolina Nullification Ordinance, and the newspaper posted this as an article for locals. Floyd explained that South Carolina felt the Tariffs took advantage of it and the state had "declared...

  16. No Wampum for this land
    date December 3, 1832 to December 30, 1832map INDIAN LANDS, Georgiatags Government, Migration/Transportation, Native-Americans

    December of 1832 saw another sale of lands that were the rightful property of Cherokee and Creek Indians in Georgia. The Native Americans of Georgia were forced from their homes and lands because the state government saw the land as being underused and mismanaged by the Indian tribes. This act of selling Indian lands was known as the Georgia Land Lottery and in 1832 it again sold off native...

  17. Liberation in Liberia
    date December, 1832map PASQUOTANK, North Carolinatags African-Americans, Church/Religious-Activity, Migration/Transportation, Race-Relations, Slavery

    According to the Elizabeth City Star, the proposal to send free blacks to the colony of Liberia was a "scheme entirely Utopian." This North Carolina newspaper praised the American Colonization Society's ideas about how to handle the "race problem," as they deemed the growing number of newly freed blacks in America. A group of prominent Americans convened in December 1816 and established...

  18. Nullification Controversy
    date December, 1832map ROWAN, North Carolinatags Government, Law, Politics, War

    Sectional tensions between the North and South increased following the Tariff of 1828. The tariff placed a high tax on foreign goods to stimulate domestic manufacturing, and, in turn, placed strains on the Southern economy as the British reduced their imports of cotton. Many declared the tariff unconstitutional and thought that it infringed upon the individual states' rights. To quell the...

  19. Radicalism vs. Rationality
    date December 15, 1832map SPOTSYLVANIA, Virginiatags Economy, Government, Politics

    On Saturday, December 15, 1832, the Virginia Herald expressed its grief over the Nullification Crisis with the words, "alarming as the crisis...is, we cling to the hope, that for the sake of humanity and the honor of our country and her institutions, that means of averting the impending storm may yet be devised..." While regretting the approaching conflict, the Virginia newspaper never...

  20. Virginia in the Nullification Crisis of 1832
    date December 10, 1832map CAMPBELL, Virginiatags Economy, Government, Law, Politics

    "They have gone so far, that it is even more difficult to recede than go on; and they had rather see the Union dissolved tomorrow than that their own proposition should be accepted," proclaimed the Lynchburg Virginian in reference to South Carolina's actions in December 1832. It all began in 1828 when Congress enacted the so-called Tariff of Abominations. Many Southerners thought the highly...

  21. President Jackson Responds to Nullification
    date December 10, 1832map Washington City, District of Columbiatags Economy, Government, Law, Politics

    The crisis threatened to tear the nation apart. This crisis was the passage of the Nullification Ordinances by the South Carolina State Assembly in November of 1832. The unity and survival of the nation depended upon President Andrew Jackson's response. On December 10, 1832, President Jackson presented his response to the Congress, arguing that the justification for state nullification...

  22. The Outcast of Virginia
    date December 8, 1832map LOUISA, Virginiatags Government, Law, Politics

    "A Voice from Louisa" wrote to the Richmond Enquirer in December 1832 with the hope that a man like John Tyler would not be elected as a United States Senator once again. Instead, the writer expressed the importance of knowing the "political creed" of the candidates, as this was the only way to ensure the election of a senator who truly supported President Andrew Jackson and...

  23. Reverends Discuss Death and Religion Before Politics
    date December 5, 1832map ABBEVILLE, South Carolinatags Church/Religious-Activity, Health/Death, Politics

    On December 5, 1832 Reverend James M. Chiles wrote a letter to fellow South Carolinian Reverend James C. Furman detailing the health of Chiles' family and the surge of religious revival in his area. Chiles began the letter with an apology that it had taken him so long to respond offering the explanation that he had been close to death and his youngest sister had died. Joy and sorrow flowed...

  24. Nullification Frowned Upon By Richmond Newspaper
    date December 4, 1832map RICHMOND, Virginiatags Economy, Government, Politics

    On December 4, 1832, The Richmond Enquirer devoted several pages of its newspaper to discussion of the recent nullification crisis. In one of the articles, the editorial staff of the Enquirer expressed their feelings about nullification. The editorial staff of the Enquirer stated that although "from the moment this paper saw the light, it has been the devoted friend of the Rights of the States,"...

  25. The Interstate Slave Trade
    date December 3, 1832map ALEXANDRIA CITY, Virginiatags African-Americans, Agriculture, Economy, Migration/Transportation, Slavery

    The Alexandria Gazette, a newspaper of Alexandria, Virginia, published a small advertisement for "200 Negroes" on December 3, 1832. This ad placed by slave traders Franklin and Armfield, requested slaves between "12 to 25 years of age, field hands, also mechanics of every description;" they were "determined to give higher prices for slaves than any (other) purchasers..." This small...