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  1. Southern Women's Involvement in Charitable Organizations
    date February 10, 1862map SHENANDOAH, Virginiatags Arts/Leisure, Church/Religious-Activity, War, Women

    In 1862 Sigismunda S. Kimball, from Shenandoah County, Virginia was suddenly, like so many other women of the South, thrown into a completely different world as the Civil War raged through the South. Mrs. Kimball was put in charge of her family's plantation while her husband was away at war and she kept the plantation records in a journal which she wrote in everyday. In this journal she wrote about...

  2. Reverand Glennie Baptizes in Litchfield
    date February 6, 1857map GEORGETOWN, South Carolinatags Church/Religious-Activity

    On February 6, 1857, Reverend Alexander Glennie visited a plantation in Litchfield, South Carolina. On this particular morning, he performed morning services and conducted three adult baptisms. The act of baptism is a vital part of Christianity, and was highly regarded as an important event in one's life during this time. To Christians in South Carolina, and in the general region, to be baptized as...

  3. Colonization Movement
    date December 19, 1836map NORFOLK CITY, Virginiatags African-Americans, Church/Religious-Activity, Migration/Transportation, Race-Relations, Slavery

    On December 19, 1836, Philo, an anonymous member of the Norfolk community, tried to spur popular support for the resettlement of blacks in Africa. He called both Christians and patriots to rally for a cause truly worthy of the friends of the African race. This plan, he said, was consistent with individual rights and the peace, happiness, and prosperity, of the free coloured race ... [and] promises...

  4. Delage's Last Days
    date July, 1840 to July 21, 1841map SUMTER, South Carolinatags Arts/Leisure, Church/Religious-Activity, Health/Death, Women

    When Natalie Delage fell ill in 1841, she found support in the community around her. The wife of Thomas Sumter Jr. kept a diary detailing the last year of her life on the plantation in Sumter District, South Carolina. She visited doctors in town, and doctors came to visit her. They prescribed all sorts of medicines: Castor oil salts, elixirs, chocolates, chicken broth, snake root, and creamor tartar....

  5. All men are created equal
    date December 11, 1893map BALTIMORE CITY, Marylandtags African-Americans, Church/Religious-Activity, Law, Race-Relations

    Religious faith and rhetoric dominated nearly every aspect of life for both blacks and whites following Reconstruction in the South. For them, God was an integral factor that offered life guidance in religious terms. Thus, if one failed to adhere to the principles upheld by their religion, they were condemned in religious and social regards. In 1893, Reverend W. Walker Jubb gave a sermon describing...

  6. Adventists Pardoned
    date April 17, 1893map RHEA, Tennesseetags Arts/Leisure, Church/Religious-Activity, Law

    In Tennessee, Sunday was a sacred day. In fact, there were state-wide laws expressly prohibiting doing any sort of work on Sundays. So when nine Seventh-Day Adventists were caught doing work on a Sunday, they were arrested, tried, and convicted. They were sentenced to short jail terms and locked up. Later, Judge James C. Parks, the trial judge who passed the prison sentence on the men decided that...

  7. The Spread of Prohibition
    date January 2, 1891 to October 5, 1897map MONTGOMERY, Marylandtags Church/Religious-Activity, Economy, Government, Women

    The Anti-Saloon League began with a modest following in 1893 to becoming a major political force in lobbying for a Constitutional amendment. Their goal, under the guidance of their president, Rev. Howard Hyde Russell, was to unify the anti-alcohol sentiment already brewing in society and to enact further legislation to prohibit the sale and consumption of alcohol. Grounded in moral and religious ideals,...

  8. Days of Fasting, Humiliation, and Prayer
    date December 5, 1850 to November 21, 1860map CHARLESTON, South Carolinatags Church/Religious-Activity, Government, Politics, Race-Relations, Slavery, War

    There was always a crisis in the 1850s, at least in the minds of the citizens of Charleston. On December 6, 1850, William H. Barnwell, rector of St. Peter's Church, took the pulpit to expand upon the great political question which is agitating our country. The occasion? A Day of Fasting, Humiliation, and Prayer, as designated by the South Carolina legislature. The great political question? Slavery,...

  9. Imposition of Colonization
    date August, 1839map NORFOLK CITY, Virginiatags African-Americans, Church/Religious-Activity, Law, Migration/Transportation, Race-Relations, Slavery

    At the passing of John R. Rix of Raleigh, NC, eighteen of his slaves were freed from bondage on the condition that they boarded a ship sailing from Norfolk, VA to the west coast of Africa. One of the eighteen took a stand against these terms, and was resold into slavery. The idea for the resettlement of blacks in Africa began as a way for whites to rid themselves of African American presence to counterbalance...

  10. Military and Social Subordination
    date November 23, 1853map CHARLESTON, South Carolinatags Church/Religious-Activity, Education, Politics, Slavery, War

    Richard Yeadon was a man who rarely minced words. In speaking to the Calliopean and Polytechnic Societies at the Citadel Academy in Charleston in 1853, Yeadon took the opportunity to address the audience on what would happen if higher institutions in South Carolina did not maintain strict discipline among their pupils. Stemming from God, Order is the great law of nature, whereas Insubordination or...

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