AMERICANS HAVING HARD FEELINGS AGAINST THOSE WHO HAVE UNPOPULAR HERITAGE IS NOT NEW The article on the very top was recently shared on a historical forum. I was surprised to see my great grandfather as a signee. I suspect many of our ancestors had hard feelings against those who descended from...
AN ODD APPROACH TO ENDING SLAVERY IN THE SOUTH Matthew Fontaine Maury (January 14, 1806 – February 1, 1873) was an American astronomer, historian, oceanographer, meteorologist, cartographer, author, geologist, educator, and naval officer for the United States and then the Confederacy. He was a devout Christian and, after reading Psalm 8:8,...
OLD BONES FOR FERTILIZER? In the 1700's Europe's fields were becoming exhausted. The solution became to use the bones of dead soldiers amongst others to fertilize the fields. Fortunately, a replacement fertilizer was found in the Chincha Islands off of Peru in the form of Guano, 150 feet deep. In November 1802, Prussian geographer...
What would Ben do? The article above is from 1724 Edinburgh, Scotland. It speaks to the beginnings of inoculation. I have included articles below from early London and 1869 New York City, showing that in the past there has been people on both sides of the discussion of to vaccinate or...
What makes a sport or game Olympic? Over the years, sports and games (as in Olympic games), have been added and removed. While all events involved competition, they often involved activities that the host country might have an advantage of. In 1912, the IOC removed motorboating since it was not human-powered,...
The article above is from 1915. Haiti has had 59 presidents since it's founding in 1804.. Other than the 3 presidents who served under U.S. occupation only 9 of those 59 served full terms in office. The other 50 were overthrown, executed, died in office, committed suicide and various other...
The ratification of the US Constitution in 1790, was celebrated in a similar fashion as a day of Independence On May 4, 1776, the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations was the first of the Thirteen Colonies to renounce its allegiance to the British Crown, and it was the fourth...
JUNETEENTH The Galveston article above contains the exact order given by Major General Granger, that we now celebrate as Juneteenth. The article to the left had appeared in Columbia, SC, a few days earlier and is similar. The exhortations in the orders are, in essence, saying, you are free and equal now. The...
A count of families in the fifteen slave-holding states in 1860: ▪ 73,230 members of families holding 50 or more slaves or 1% ▪ 986,895 members of families holding 5 - 49 slaves or 12% ▪ 931,280 members of families holding 1 - 4 slaves or 11% ▪ 6,120,825 non-slaveholding whites or 75% I would...
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