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  1. Settling the Debts of Robert Riddick
    date December 13, 1819 to December 31, 1827map NANSEMOND, Virginiatags African-Americans, Agriculture, Health/Death, Law, Slavery, Women

    On December 13, 1819, Joseph Prentis took over as the Executor of the will of the late Robert M. Riddick of Nansemond County due to the death of the named executor, Thomas Swepson. Mr. Riddick's will called for the disposal of his estate for the payment of his debts. However, Riddick stipulated that in order to raise the deficiency [the Executor was] fully authorized and requested to mortgage the lands...

  2. Our Father, Who Art in Heaven
    date 1821 to 1826map LIBERTY, Georgiatags African-Americans, Church/Religious-Activity, Crime/Violence, Education, Race-Relations, Slavery, Women

    Little Robert Anderson stuttered as he sat on the dirt floor of his slave cabin at his grandmother's feet. Over and over again, he painfully tried to recite the Lord's Prayer, but each time he failed. First, he could not remember how it began. After a hint from his grandmother, he ran into trouble with the latter parts. After many long, frustrating hours, his grandmother, with a pained expression on...

  3. A Petition on Behalf of a Slave Named Royal
    date 1824map RICHLAND, South Carolinatags African-Americans, Crime/Violence, Government, Slavery

    Several citizens of upstate South Carolina approached the state assembly with a petition concerning a runaway slave of special concern to the region. Several years earlier a South Carolina citizen by the name of George Ford had been murdered by a slave named Joe (also called Forest) owned by a Mr. Carroll of Richland County. Both Mr. Ford's relatives, as well as the state, offered more than 1,000 dollars...

  4. Robbery in Jackson
    date September 11, 1824 to September 12, 1824map INDIAN LANDS, Tennesseetags African-Americans, Crime/Violence, Race-Relations, Slavery

    Although Jackson was one of the largest cities in Tennessee, it was not one of the most dangerous. However, in September 1824, two little boys from a well-known family in the area, the Joshua Haskell's family, were accosted by a runaway slave on their way to school. He first spoke to them then grabbed their dinner-basket. Fortunately, he let them leave and the two little boys managed to arrive at school...

  5. Gooch on Slaveholding
    date February 23, 1825map HENRICO, Virginiatags African-Americans, Government, Race-Relations, Slavery

    In response to John Floyd (whom had written him in correspondence just six days prior), C.W. Gooch wrote a letter in the winter of 1825 on the issue of slaveholding in Virginia and the South. Gooch believed that the subject of slaveholding states rights' was not getting enough attention from southern politicians. Throughout the letter Gooch argued against the intrusive interference of our northern...

  6. Freedom in Fauquier
    date 1820 to 1830map FAUQUIER, Virginiatags African-Americans, Race-Relations, Slavery

    Throughout the eighteenth and nineteenth Centuries, Fauquier County was a county with many African American slaves. However, Fauquier County was a county with a few freed African Americans. In 1820, the Fauquier County Census counted 11,167 slaves and 507 freed African Americans. In 1830, there were 12,612 slaves and only 621 freed African Americans. Therefore, in those 10 years, the number of slaves...

  7. Ghost Story: The Strange Case of the McChesney Household
    date 1825map AUGUSTA, Virginiatags African-Americans, Crime/Violence, Race-Relations, Slavery

    It was 1825, and strange happenings were occurring around the house of Dr. John McChesney in Augusta County, Virginia. According to the Annals of Augusta County, a historical record of the County, it all had started when Maria, one of Dr. McChesney's enslaved children, came to dinner one night very much frightened, apparently having been chased by an old woman with her head tied up. Soon after, stones...

  8. Liberation of Slaves and Colonization in Liberia in 1825
    date September 3, 1825map PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvaniatags Slavery, African-Americans

    In 1825, Christian groups and colonization societies in America advocated for freed African Americans to colonize land in Liberia as an alternative to emancipate slaves in America. Religious groups expressed their sentiments in publication including the Christian Register, which published an article in an issued dated September 3, 1825. The article argued for the transportation of slaves to their...

  9. Virginia Gazette: Epic of a Small-Time Newspaper
    date January 7, 1826map FAUQUIER, Virginiatags African-Americans, Agriculture, Arts/Leisure, Economy, Race-Relations, Slavery

    A man swept into a dimly lit tavern and muttered, "Whiskey," in a hoarse voice before collapsing into a creaky wooden chair. On the table next to him lay a folded newspaper with the day's date. He snatched up the paper, the Virginia Gazette, and began leafing through it. He nodded to himself when he read that in North Carolina some planters held a contest to see whose slaves could pick the most...

  10. Caution to Purchasers of Negros
    date May 20, 1826map JACKSON, Mississippitags African-Americans, Race-Relations, Slavery

    In an 1826 article, an Alabama newspaper warned readers and slave buyers of an untrustworthy slave trader who dealt in kidnapped free blacks. Victims were found in Mississippi, greatly abused or dead. The slave trader had even captured a young free black boy from his parents. The free men informed a gentleman, at whose house he stopped, that they were free born, and begged his interference to procure...

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