Reminiscences of olden times: Manuscript, [ca. 1895].

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Evans, John H., 1824-ca. 1896. Reminiscences of olden times: Manuscript, [ca. 1895].

Reminiscences of olden times: Manuscript, [ca. 1895].

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Reminiscence, ca. 1895, in which Evans includes some family genealogical material, especially about his grandfather's move to and experiences in the Mississippi Territory from 1809 forward, farming and the Creek nation, including the effects of the Fort Mims, Ala., massacre, and the subsequent fighting. He also discusses Sam Dale, who later became a friend of Evans father, and who confirmed J.F.H. Claiborne's account of Dale's exploits. Evans also discusses attending a mixed school, at which both Choctaw Indians and whites attended, at Emmaus, Clarke Co., Miss., in the 1830's, the Indian removal at about the same time, early churches in the area, and their ministers, and the effect of the Second Great Awakening in the 1830's on religion, his low opinion of New Englanders as money-grubbers, especially as related to their participation in the slave trade and subsequent participation in abolitionism when slavery proved unprofitable in the North. He also traces evangelicalism by New Englanders in China in the 1880's and 1890's to the same profit motive. Also discussed was the mail service and cost of postage, and the conviction and hanging of a white who murdered a black, as well as the common use of whipping and branding to punish minor offenders in the 1820's-1840's period.

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