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Episodes tagged "Violence": 1 through 5 of 5

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  1. William Gilmore Simms' Account of the 1865 Destruction of Columbia
    date February 14, 1865 to February 20, 1865map RICHLAND, South Carolinatags Catholicism, Columbia, Violence, Confederacy, Civil War, General Sherman

    In 1865, William Gilmore Simms, famed Southern novelist, published a text recounting the capture and burning of Columbia, South Carolina, by the forces of General William Sherman.  The text was highly anecdotal, creating a scene of violence, and disorder.  He recounted looting, fires, and destruction. Simms argued that Sherman willing and knowingly allowed Columbia to burn, that soldiers prevented...

  2. Sumner-Brooks Affair
    date May 22, 1856map Washington City, District of Columbiatags Kansas-Nebraska Act, Abolitionism, Sumner, Brooks, Violence

    Massachusetts Senator Charles Sumner sat as his desk in the nearly empty Chamber of the United States Senate on May 22, 1856. He had recently given a speech called “The Crime Against Kansas” on abolishing slavery in the United States. The speech described atrocities occurring in Kansas at the time. There pro-slavery border ruffians from Missouri crossed into Kansas and attacked anti-slavery settlers....

  3. Abolitionists Free Suspected Runaway Slave
    date October 4, 1851map ONONDAGA, New Yorktags Abolitionism, Abolitionist violence, Violence

    On Wednesday October 4, 1851, Syracuse city police, led by Deputy U.S. Marshall Allen, arrested an African American man by the name of Jerry McHenry.  John M. Reynolds of Marion County, Indiana, claimed McHenry to be his slave, and as a result, McHenry was taken into custody as a runaway slave and set for trial.  However, Reynolds would soon be surprised by an unexpected turn of events that neither...

  4. I Was Not Saved to Run
    date December 25, 1956map Jefferson, Alabamatags alabama, Violence, Race Relations, African American, Civil Rights

    It was Christmas 1956.  Taking the place of presents and songs, Reverend Fred L. Shuttlesworth and family woke up to the sound of sixteen dynamites exploding from underneath their home.  By looking at photographs of the damage, you would think everything within ten feet of the home was dead.  However, Shuttlesworth and his family reemerge unharmed.  Shuttlesworth being a religious man gave God...

  5. Bleeding Congress
    date May 19, 1856 to May 22, 1856map Washington City, District of Columbiatags Abolitionism, Bleeding Kansas, Brooks-Sumner Fight, Violence

        Tensions on Capitol Hill had been rising for years as Southern and Northern politicians continued their debates with one another over the slavery issue. By the 1850s there was a full out war of words in both chambers of Congress as each side was becoming increasingly uncompromising in their cause. These tensions had been creeping across the country at an extremely fast rate throughout the nineteenth...