Resources
Travel in the United States
Women's Roles and Lives in the 1830s
Men's Roles and Lives in the 1830s
Money
Depicting Life in the 1830s in the United States
- Tavern Sign (artifact, 1838)
- Trunk (artifact, 1820-30)
- Stage Depot Chest (artifact, 1810-30)
- Accomodation Stage (broadside, late 1830's)
- Steamboat Ticket (book excerpt, 1914)
- American Stage Wagon (image, 1807)
- The Stage (image, 1828)
- Form (image, 1837)
- Young Couple Reading (image, 1839)
- Family Scene (image, 1834)
- One Room Schoolhouse (image, 1826?)
- Girls at their Labor of Love (image, 1853)
- Spinning by Hand with a Single Spindle (image, 1867)
Events from the 1830s
Increasing Sectional Tensions
Nat Turner's Insurrection
- Newspaper accounts of the Insurrection, possibly drawn from Henry Irving Tragle, The Southampton Slave Revolt of 1832 (1971)
- Trial Records, from Tragle
- The Confession of Nat Turner (1831)
- Authentic and Impartial Narrative of the Tragical Scene. Warner, Samuel (New York, 1831)
- Library of Virginia documents on the Turner Insurrection
- Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl: Written by Herself. Brent, Linda [Harriet Jacobs] (1861)
- Atlantic Monthly 8 (1861), "Nat Turner's Insurrection". Higginson, Thomas Wentworth. (Boston, 1857-1932).
- Review of the Debate in the Virginia Legislature of 1831 and 1832. Dew, Thomas R. (Richmond, 1832) & Proceeding of Virginia Legislature
- Newspaper
acounts & editorials on the debate (should follow, where possible,
the same papers as used for insurrection accounts)
- Memoir of Catherine Brown Anderson, Rufus