Episodes Around: 18340702

  1. Blacks in South Carolina: Education and Christianization
    date 1834map CHESTER, South Carolinatags African-Americans, Church/Religious-Activity, Education, Government, Law, Politics, Slavery

    Several members of South Carolina's Chester County delivered a petition to the state assembly in response to an 1834 act outlawing teaching reading to slaves. The citizens expressed outrage at the legislation, saying themselves and other citizens were prepared to disobey the law because slaves across Southern plantations already had the ability to read. They further expressed their opinion that...

  2. Distinguished Savages
    date 1834map NEW YORK, New Yorktags Arts/Leisure, Native-Americans

    We all know the stereotype: the screaming, bloodthirsty savage with scalp in hand, terrorizing the civilized world and using the land without virtue. Yet there are some people who differ, like Benjamin B. Thatcher.

    In his Indian Biography, Thatcher argued that the Native American was not resigned to such a savage state, but that there existed among them great "patriots, orators,...

  3. Influence of Greek Revival Architecture
    date 1834map ORLEANS, Louisianatags Architecture, Greek Revival

    The Greek Revival sprung into the American architectural landscape just as quickly as it disappeared lasting only from the 1820s to 1850s. A typical result from the movement was a James Gallier product that was part of the "Three Sisters" and constructed on Rampart Street in New Orleans in conjunction with two other Greek Revival town homes. Originally built in 1834 as a residential structure,...

  4. The Economics of Renting and Selling Enslaved People
    date January 24, 1834 to 1835map BERKELEY, Virginiatags African-Americans, Economy, Migration/Transportation, Race-Relations, Slavery, Women

    Slave master John Lewis was stone dead. He was gone, but his 'property' still lived in western Virginia's Berkeley County. After he died, hiring out a slave named Charity on October 30, 1834 meant 15 in his family's pocket immediately. A remaining 82 was due to them later on account. Other slaves were also rented out. W. Russell paid out a sizable 70 for Pompey's labor, while...

  5. Charles Larpenteur becomes a Clerk for the New American Fur Company
    date July 2, 1834map TERRITORY, Territorytags Economy, Science/Technology

    Charles Larpenteur wrote about old news that had reached Fort William in the Missouri Territory on July 2, 1834. His journal entry notifies us that the information came from St. Louis and had alerted the clerks and trappers at the fort that "all the posts belonging to the American Fur Company (A.F.C.), as old Mr. Astor had this year sold out to Pierre Chouteau and Co." Charles mentions he was anxious...