Pagan religion and practice has always been at odds with Christianity. In the mid 19th century the two sects of the Baptist Church sought to educate the many tribes of the Cherokee Indians. The records for the interactions between the two peoples are at best biased, bureaucratic, opinion, and afford little to no information on how the Cherokee really felt towards their missionaries. The first...
The shot sliced through the quiet, heavy bayou air at Willow ditch. The bullet from the double-barreled shot gun grazed Joseph Richburg's coat. Almost immediately, a second shot tore through his pants. Responding quickly, Richburg fired back at his adversary, Brewer, who had begun to flee. Then Richburg aimed his shot gun at Brewer's son, prepared to fire again. However, when Brewer's...
The last job of Margaret Jane Blake, a former slave, was as servant to the Walter B. B. family. Eleanor McC. (daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Walter B. B.) moved from Baltimore to Chicago when she married Mr. McC. and brought Margaret Blake with her. In the winter of 1879 Eleanor decided to visit her mother and family in Baltimore, Maryland for Christmas. She took with her, her daughter and Margaret Blake....
A dispatch from Lake Providence, Louisiana has "left little doubt that Dr.Williams B. Jones, the editor of the Lake Providence (La.) Republican, who was foully assassinated at his home on the day after the election, was sent out of this world for the one reason that he was a...outspoken Republican". In Lake Providence's election Gen. FLoyd King, a White Leaguer, was chosen as the Democratic...
After the Civil War, the United States’ relationship with Brazil became an important one because of the thousands of Confederates who had relocated to South America. Henry W. Hillard served as the U.S. Ambassador to Brazil from 1877 to 1881 and became a vocal member of the Brazilian Anti-Slavery Society. Joaquim Nabuco, a Brazilian abolitionist, served as the legal...
In the second half of the nineteenth century, two of New York City's most prominent citizens, A T Stewart and William "Boss" Tweed, were also at the heart of city's constant growth and subsequent overcrowding. Men like Stewart and Tweed invested in new construction projects throughout the city, which in turn brought more people into the city. Meanwhile, New York's horse-drawn street...
By 1880, no longer did the farmers of North Carolina have to leave their great state and move to western lands to grow the bustling corn crop because they failed to produce agriculture at home. Not only was North Carolina's climate suitable to grow a variety of crops to be grown anywhere in the United States, but the years preceding 1880 witnessed the transformation of North Carolina Yellow...
That his departure was felt to be a public loss in the community at large was evinced by the outpouring of the people, from far and near, to pay the last tribute of respect to one whom they regarded as the servant of God and the friend of his fellow-man. Everyone in the community was affected by Mr. S.M. Janney's death. The people, black and white, gathered together to mourn the loss of a dear...
1 Gearing up for the 4th of July President James Garfield's itinerary for the weekend is printed in the Washington Post this morning. He will be spending the rest of this weekend and the better part of next week relaxing in coastal retreat of Williamstown Massachusetts. The President will be accompanied by his cabinet and family. The President's train will depart from the Baltimore and...
At 9:30am, the morning of July 2nd, 1881, President James A. Garfield was shot at Baltimore and Potomac Depot, a train station in Washington, D.C. (Salt Lake Daily Harold, 1881). In the ladies room of the train car, two shots were fired at President Garfield, with one bullet penetrating his right arm and the other piercing his abdomen just above the right hip, near his kidney...