Episodes Around: 18320801 to 18320831

  1. Life in the North for Free Blacks
    date January 1, 1831 to December 25, 1833map FAUQUIER, Virginiatags African-Americans, Race-Relations, Slavery

    Mr. James C. Lake placed an ad in the Virginia Herald informing the public in central Virginia that two of his slaves, Reuben and Noah Brooks, had runaway. The advertisement offered a reward for their capture and safe return to his plantation in Fauquier County. Some weeks after placing the ad, Mr. Lake received a letter from Reuben and Noah. They wrote to him, saying that they were currently...

  2. Carey Advocates Liberia as the Solution
    date 1832map PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvaniatags Slavery, American Colonization Society

    Nat Turner's methodical slaying of white civilians in Southampton County, Virginia during August of 1831 caused anxiety and concern for whites throughout the country. Although he was captured within months, his rebellion had unintended consequences. It added fuel to an already growing fire – the movement to send free blacks to Liberia.

    Arguing on behalf of the American...

  3. Mr. Clay comes to Staunton, Virginia
    date July 27, 1832 to November, 1832map AUGUSTA, Virginiatags Government, Politics, Urban-Life/Boosterism

    Augusta County, Virginia was clearly Whig Country come the election of 1832. The Annals of Augusta County, a historical record, speaks of an imposing and influential political convention in 1832. Attended by people from all over the State, the delegates called themselves National Republicans and adopted resolutions which called for Henry Clay for president. Four years earlier, the Staunton...

  4. McCormick’s Improved Reaper Takes to The Fields
    date August, 1832 to 1832map ROCKBRIDGE, Virginiatags Agriculture, Science/Technology

    Cyrus McCormick gave a public demonstration of his newly improved Reaper near the little town of Lexington, Virginia in 1832. Around 100 people were present to watch the twenty-three year-old innovator’s contraption take to a field of grain. Herbert N. Casson explained in his book, Cyrus Hall McCormick: His Life and Work, that the crowd included “several political leaders of local fame,...