Location: ADAMS, Mississippi

  1. Southern Medicine

    Date(s): January 9, 1860 Location:  Tag(s): Health/Death, Education, War 

    On January 6, 1860, Benjamin Leonard Covington Wailes, a white planter in Washington, Adams County, Mississippi, wrote a diary entry describing his son's experiences at a northern medical school. According to Wailes, his son, who attended an unspecified medical school in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, resisted all efforts and persuasions used to get him to go off from the medical college with the southern...

  2. Paternalism, Slaveholders, and the Guilty Conscience

    Date(s): February 27, 1851 Location:  Tag(s): African-Americans, Race-Relations, Slavery 

    On February 27, 1851, John M. Folkes wrote a letter in response to a request he had received from a man named Benjamin Drake. In his reply, he addressed Drake's plea for Folkes to surrender a number of his slaves. Throughout the letter, there was a tacit understanding of Drake's financial difficulties; one can assume from Folkes' reply that the end aspiration of Drake's request is purely monetary...