In October of 1839, Thomas Y. Simons addressed the Charleston Board of Health on the history and causes of the Yellow Fever. He addressed the various names and reports from the areas the port city would have contacted on a regular basis. The disease was referred to by sailors sometimes as “black vomit.' This name being from the occurrence approximately three to four days after contracting...
In the spring of 1834, the South Carolina court of appeals heard numerous cases none more prominent than a case on Military law determining whether newly appointed Lieutenant Edward McCready’s rights were infringed upon when he was denied commission by a superior officer, Colonel Benjamin F. Hunt. Presiding over the cases at Law argued and determined in the Court of Appeals of South Carolina at...
Men and women who owned slaves had to constantly emphasize their position of authority and dominance over the people they owned. Some did so through beatings, starvation, and atrocious treatment. Others did through simple words, such as order a slave to perform a task that the owner knew the slave particularly despised. Regardless of how, each slave's day was full of a constant reminder that they were...