Episodes Around: 18310113

  1. James Brady: Chronicles of a Devoted Businessman on the James River
    date May 8, 1829 to July 25, 1832map ALBEMARLE, Virginiatags African-Americans, Agriculture, Economy, Slavery

    By the waning sunlight, a fairly young merchant by the name of James Brady poured his eyes over a financial document. It was proof that his business relations with an associate, William Tompkins, Sr., had finally bore fruit. Mr. Tompkins waited over three years to pay James Brady for debts dating back to May 1829. The large quantities of bacon, corn, nails, and planks had accumulated into a bill...

  2. Indian Removal
    date 1830 to 1832map WILKINSON, Mississippitags Government, Law, Migration/Transportation, Native-Americans, Race-Relations

    On January 30, 1832 The Woodville Mississippian published an extensive letter from Lewis Cass, the Secretary of War, to Andrew Jackson, the President of the United States. Cass was concerned about the policy that the government would take regarding the Native Americans living in the United States. Cass admitted that whites had harmed the Indians for the past two centuries, and he saw the...

  3. Perry's Detainment
    date 1831map TERRITORY, Territorytags Agriculture, Economy, Government, Politics, Migration/Transportation

    An unidentified man named Perry (likely a relative of James Perry) had finally arrived in Texas. As he is mentioned in a letter to James Perry, who had a number of business interests in Texas, it is probable that he was there in a role of some relation to James Perry's investments. Unfortunately for Perry, the winter of 1831 was the worst winter that Texas had experienced for several years....

  4. Augusta County, Nat Turner, and Abolition
    date 1831map AUGUSTA, Virginiatags African-Americans, Crime/Violence, Politics, Race-Relations, Slavery, Women

    In 1831, the news of Nat Turner's rebellion provoked a seemingly unexpected response from women in Augusta County, Virginia: a call for abolition. While the women called their actions unexampled, and they felt all the timidity incident to our sex in entering the sphere of politics, they worried that the revolt was but a partial execution of a widely projected scheme of carnage. They could not...

  5. Cholera
    date 1831map SUFFOLK, Massachusettstags Health/Death

    A Cholera epidemic struck the citizens of the United States of America in 1831. Doctors all over the Nation treated its victims without much success. Many doctors published their feelings and findings in medical journals. A Doctor Smith from Boston wrote about his voyage to Russia that year to compare their epidemic to the one in America. Dr. Smith was horrified to see so many helpless poor Russian...

  6. Missionaries and the Choctaws
    date 1831map INDIAN LANDS, Georgiatags Church/Religious-Activity, Native-Americans

    Mr. Cushman and his fellow missionaries broke ground in the "unbroken wilderness" of Choctaw Nation on October 15, 1827 and on July 31, 1831 he published a letter about his experiences in The Missionary Herald titled, Effects of the Gospel on the People. Upon his arrival in 1827, Cushman found the members of the Choctaw tribe to be entirely heathen and uncivilized in both appearance and practice....

  7. Mr. Brown and the Indians
    date January 13, 1831map TERRITORY, Territorytags Crime/Violence, Government, Politics, Migration/Transportation, Native-Americans, Race-Relations, War

    Mr. Brown's absence was a strain on the family that he left behind. Taking care of day-to-day business without a husband and father in the rough settlement of San Felipe de Austin was not an easy feat. The pressures upon the family increased as time went by, and the news of him they received after his absence spanned one month was not heartening. Brown was taking part in an exploration of the...