In Cherryfield, Maine a minister sued to recover his salary which the church had refused to pay him as a result of his preaching about his antislavery beliefs. The church claimed that his contract stipulated that he was not to preach about anything political and thus he was in breach of contract. The lawsuit, when reported in the newspaper, had not yet been resolved. The writers of The Southern...
The General Assembly of the State of Tennessee resolved to instruct their congressmen to gather appropriations for the leveeing of the Mississippi on the Tennessee side. Previously federal lands had gone to Missouri, Arkansas and Louisiana for levees, and as a result the Tennessee side had aquired a greater amount of overflow “to the manifest injury of the people and the State of Tennessee'....
On November 25, 1857, William Still recorded a story that told of the horrors of slavery in the South. Still assisted a group of slaves on the journey to freedom by way of the Underground Railroad. He was among the abolitionists during this time that believed that blacks should be afforded equal rights and opportunities that would allow them to earn a living. Still did not feel that blacks...
Gustavus Henry believed that producing cotton could make him a wealthy man. On November 27, 1857, he wrote a letter to his wife stating that despite encountering troubles for the past month, the gin stands [had] been doing finely for the last five days. Gustavus described the recent production as delightful. He further said it was a beautiful thing that the lead pipe, which brought water from the...
In a private letter to her granddaughter, an unnamed woman described a simple scene with such poignant detail that an ordinary moment in history became remarkably touching on paper. The elderly woman wrote to her granddaughter, Kate, about several incidents in her everyday life, one of which was a portrayal of her young cousin, Harry. The writer used small, humorous anecdotes to describe both Harry...
In a private letter to her granddaughter, an unnamed woman described a simple scene with such poignant detail that an ordinary moment in history became remarkably touching on paper. The elderly woman wrote to her granddaughter, Kate, about several incidents in her everyday life, one of which was a portrayal of her young cousin, Harry. The writer used small, humorous anecdotes to describe both Harry...
In a private letter to her granddaughter, an unnamed woman described a simple scene with such poignant detail that an ordinary moment in history became remarkably touching on paper. The elderly woman wrote to her granddaughter, Kate, about several incidents in her everyday life, one of which was a portrayal of her young cousin, Harry. The writer used small, humorous anecdotes to describe both Harry...
In a private letter to her granddaughter, an unnamed woman described a simple scene with such poignant detail that an ordinary moment in history became remarkably touching on paper. The elderly woman wrote to her granddaughter, Kate, about several incidents in her everyday life, one of which was a portrayal of her young cousin, Harry. The writer used small, humorous anecdotes to describe both Harry...
In November of 1857, G. Holbrook of the Wheaton Female Seminary in Norton, Massachusetts, submitted her article "The Jintlemanly Young Lady," to Rushlight. The article told the story of a young man named Patrick who gave up his seat for a young lady on a train ride. Commenting on this behavior, Holbrook wrote "The true lady and the true gentleman have many qualities in common; each should possess...
Writing, “To My Loving Miss Patsy,” in a letter in August 1857, Vilet Lester began by explaining that:
“I have long been wishing to embrace this present and pleasant opportunity of unfolding my feelings since I was constrained to leave my long loved home.”
Lester had had four masters since she left the Pattersons’ home and desperately missed those that she had left behind,...