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Episodes tagged "Race Relations": 1 through 10 of 27

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  1. Reverend L. D. Dewey Writes to Support Colonization
    date June, 1825 to 1825map BALTIMORE, Marylandtags Slavery, Race Relations

    As the Reverend L. D. Dewey wrote to Reverend W. M'Kenney from Mount Pleasant, South Carolina, he reflected upon his observations from the African colony he had just visited. The letter he produced in June 1825 portrayed sentiments expressed throughout the nation at the time on African colonization. He described the colony of Haiti in the most positive light, depicting the colony as a haven of liberties...

  2. Abolitionist Flogged for Allegedly Selling Pamphlets
    date August 3, 1833 to August 9, 1833map DAVIDSON, Tennesseetags Slavery, Race Relations, Crime/Violence

    Amos Dresser, a student at Lane Theological Seminary in Cincinnati, left the college after a ban on an anti-slavery society and traveled through the upper south selling bibles. While travelling through Nashville, Tennessee, Dresser took his carriage to a local shop for repairs. A workman rummaging through the carriage found a store of anti-slavery letters, books and pamphlets. According to Dresser,...

  3. Cruelty in Florida Slave Plantations Leads to Apology and Changes Race Relations
    date 1845 to 1870map LEON, Floridatags Slavery, Race Relations, Apology to Slaves, Reparations for Slavery

    Florida was the sixth state to apologize for slavery, along with Alabama, North Carolina, Virginia, Maryland, and New Jersey.[1]  In Florida, legislation has been considered to atone the vicious and inexcusable actions of slavery.  According to the article, Giving Slaves a Voice, Gary R. Mormino explains “one cannot begin to comprehend the history of Florida without understanding slavery.”[2] ...

  4. Diary of Belle Edmondson, January-November, 1864
    date January, 1864 to 1864map FRANKLIN, Tennesseetags Race Relations, african americans, Civil War, Slavery

    In the midst of the Civil War, one woman remained behind the scenes of the battlefield documenting the war and experiencing the fighting first hand.  Belle Edmondson kept a diary from January to November of 1864 in which she detailed occurrences in West Tennessee such as the Union and Confederate battles, tragic accidents of friends, visitations by friends and family, travel to various southern cities,...

  5. An English traveler's view of the Civil War
    date November, 1864map JEFFERSON, Kentuckytags Race Relations, Civil War

    Racial tensions ran high in mid-to-late 19th century Louisville, Kentucky. The Civil War and slavery were two topics of main concern for many southerners. John Francis Campbell, a man from England who visited America in the fall of 1864 wrote of his travels in his memoir, “A Short American Tramp on the Fall of 1864.” As he writes of Louisville, one can feel not only the racial tension, but the...

  6. Andrew Johnson Provokes the Radical Republicans
    date 1865 to 1867map Washington City, District of Columbiatags Government, Politics, Race Relations, Constitution

    Johnson was impeached for violating a number of laws, but was acquitted. He attempted to accomplish a number of things while trying to get former Confederate states back into the Union, but he did so in an improper manner. In 1868 the House of Representatives brought Andrew Johnson on trial for violating the Tenure of Office Act. According to The New York Times article, "The President's Future Course,"...

  7. Three Tribes Confederate for Peace
    date October 21, 1867map SHAWNEE, Kansastags Race Relations, Politics, Law, Government, Civil Rights, Native-Americans

    The chiefs and headmen of the Kiowa, Comanche, and Apache Indian tribes met with the United States commissioners, such as Nathaniel G. Taylor and William S. Harney, in Kansas to seal their tribes’ fate in America on October 21, 1867. The United States government referred to the Treaty with the Kiowa, Comanche, and Apache as a peace treaty, but in reality it forced the tribes to conform to the wills...

  8. 1876 Conservative Resurgence in South Carolina Makes an Appeal to Black Voters
    date September 16, 1876map ABBEVILLE, South Carolinatags Electoral Campaigns, Redemption, African American Suffrage, Civil Rights, Race Relations, Politics, Crime/Violence, African-Americans

    In the 1876 election, The Democratic Party in South Carolina overthrew Republican control of state government, resulting in what was called the “Redemption” of the state.  Using every means at their disposal, the Democrats employed paramilitary “rifle clubs”, violence, intimidation, and electoral fraud to reassert white, Democratic control over the state.  At the head of the party was wealthy...

  9. Race Relations and Labor Unions in Nineteenth Century New Orleans
    date 1883map ORLEANS, Louisianatags Labor Union, Race Relations

    The history of the nineteenth century United States rarely speaks of racial cooperation, however evidence of a few such scenarios are historically documented. The end of slavery in the United States all but destroyed the agrarian economy of the southern states, and even with the constitutional abolition of slavery racial hostility ran high throughout the country. Yet as the country attempted to rebuild...

  10. African Americans in the Seminole Hotel
    date 1886map ORANGE, Floridatags Economy, Race Relations, african americans

    Observing the history of Winter Park, the Seminole Hotel which was built in 1886 is one location that is significant in many ways to the American Life, especially for African Americans. The Seminole Hotel was a grand resort in Lake Osceola and it was a vacation destination which attracted many wealthy northerners who were escaping the unpleasant weather from their home towns. While it is evident that...

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