Episodes Around: 18350101 to 18351231

  1. 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...

  2. Deadbeat Renter
    date December 14, 1834 to November 5, 1836map BRUNSWICK, Virginiatags Women

    For over two years, Elizabeth Rainey patiently awaited payment from John Tucker, who was renting her Brunswick County, Virginia plantation. Rainey, a widow, along with her four children was currently living in Macon, Georgia amongst her relatives. In one of her correspondences to Tucker, Rainey wrote that her eldest son, who at the age of twenty-two and was then the rightful owner of the plantation...

  3. Birth Control Practices in Missouri and the Abortion Act
    date 1835map ST LOUIS, Missouritags Health/Death, Government, Law, Politics, Women

    By the early half of the nineteenth century, Victorian views of sexuality in the South dictated that women and men remain virginal until marriage. Others held the view that sex after marriage had procreative purpose only. However, many so-called free thinkers such as Charles Knowlton, Abner Kneeland, and Samuel Thompson recognized that Victorian ideals clashed with the reality of everyday life....

  4. The Dutch Ferryman
    date 1835map RAPIDES, Louisianatags Agriculture, Church/Religious-Activity, Economy, Migration/Transportation, Native-Americans

    Presbyterian Reverend Timothy Flint had been settled with his family in Alexandria, Louisiana for 10 years when he set out at the age of 55 to explore the Red River and the people who lived along it. Commissioned by the Missionary Society of Connecticut in 1815 to preach Christianity to the masses of emigrants moving west, Flint was no stranger to such exploration. He ministered in the Ohio Valley,...

  5. James Foreman Trial
    date 1835map WILLIAMSON, Tennesseetags Law, Native-Americans

    Cohabitation with Indians, that is to say leaving in former Indian lands and with Native-Americans, was not easy in Tennessee, and also in the United States. In 1835, James Foreman, an Indian, was sued for murder and he was probably guilty. But, he was acquitted because the law of the state was not constitutional due to the Worcester V. Georgia case in which the United States Supreme Court held...

  6. An experience on the Allegheny Portage Railroad
    date 1835map CAMBRIA, Pennsylvaniatags Hollidaysburg

    Before the construction of the Horseshoe Curve, the Allegheny Portage Railroad acted as the most efficient form of transportation over the steep Allegheny Mountains. Finished in the spring of 1834, the Allegheny Portage Railroad cost the Commonwealth almost two million dollars and cut a three day journey into six hours. Philip Nicklin braved the treacherous voyage a year after the railroad's...