Category: History - American

Publications of the Mississippi Historical Society, Volume 02 (of 14), 1899

PROFESSOR J. M. WHITE, Agricultural and Mechanical College of Mississippi. PROFESSOR CHARLES HILLMAN BROUGH, of Mississippi College. PROFESSOR W. L. WEBER, of Millsaps College. PRESIDENT J. R. PRESTON, of Stanton College.

Chapters

4. Part 4

In her novel, "Like Unto Like," Sherwood Bonner thus describes the home of his adoption: "The climate was delicious. Winter never came with whirl or wind and wonder of piling sn...

12. Part 12

For all of the many petty offenses of which the slave might be guilty the punishment was confined to "stripes,"--few or many in the discretion of the justice of the peace, thoug...

6. Part 6

The concluding extract is taken from a review of "Like unto Like" that appeared in _The Boston Courier_: "Sherwood Bonner's new novel in Harper's Library of American Fiction is...

17. Part 17

In 1843, the burning question was the payment of the state bonds issued by the Union & Planters' Bank. Feeling ran high, it was made an issue in the canvass, and the repudiators...

5. Part 5

Her heart was always true to the friends of her youth, and when they visited the North she was ever ready to introduce them to the circle of which she was so prominent a member....

7. Part 7

"Autumn had dressed the old town in sober suits of brown, laced with yellow and red; there was a sharp tang in the salt sea air that sent the blood dancing. The smell of the rip...

2. Part 2

It may not be insisting too strongly on a parallel to see in the history of Southern literature a state of affairs much like that we have just sketched. It will be remembered th...

19. Part 19

Nanih Waiya is a prominent feature in the migration legend of the Choctaws, of which there are several versions. While the versions all agree, to some extent, in their main feat...

16. Part 16

The social, industrial and political conditions existing in Mississippi two years after the close of the civil war can only be properly appreciated by taking a backward view of...

11. Part 11

[78] Miss. Constitutional Convention, 1868, pp. 215-220. This Convention dropped that provision, found in the Constitution of 1832, restricting the origination of money bills to...

8. Part 8

During the latter part of the Spanish rule, he was appointed Surveyor General of the District of Natchez. He also served as a representative of the Spanish government in locatin...

10. Part 10

By an act of Congress approved April 7, 1798, all that tract of land which today includes the States of Mississippi and Alabama, was constituted one district and called the "Mis...

15. Part 15

The annual commencement in the early summer was a great occasion. An elaborate notice of the same, which embraced Aug. 21st, 1829, was published in the papers of the young state...

14. Part 14

On the 21st he was joined by Captain Minor and on the 26th by Dunbar. June 1st Gayoso, who succeeded on the death of Carondelet, came with his suite and examined the line as det...

13. Part 13

[96] The lists of Judges, Attorneys and Marshals presented below were compiled from the records of the State Department and the Department of Justice, Washington, D. C. In the m...

3. Part 3

Public life he generally avoided; offices which he might have held, he would not accept, although urged upon him. A loyal, ardent Odd Fellow, like Abou Ben Adhem, he "loved his...

18. Part 18

But if slavery produced decadence in one way, it produced growth in another. Adams county, and especially the suburbs of the city of Natchez, became the home of wealthy families...

1. Part 1

PROFESSOR J. M. WHITE, Agricultural and Mechanical College of Mississippi. PROFESSOR CHARLES HILLMAN BROUGH, of Mississippi College. PROFESSOR W. L. WEBER, of Millsaps College....

9. Part 9

The last letter that has been preserved from the interesting correspondence between Dunbar and Jefferson, bears the date of Dec. 17, 1805. With it was enclosed Dunbar's "Method...

20. Part 20

Natchez, 74, 86, 87, 88, 91, 92n, 101, 102, 106, 109, 110, 115, 133, 149, 157, 158, 162, 163, 165, 169, 171, 174, 176, 184, 185, 187, 201, 203, 204, 207, 208, 209, 210, 211, 212...