Birdsong (Jefferson J.) Plantation journal 1836-1859 [microform].

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Birdsong (Jefferson J.) Plantation journal 1836-1859 [microform].

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The journal has some entries relating to the mercantile business and personal business affairs, but mainly deals with the day to day operation of the plantation. Almost daily accounts of weather, chores, crops, social events, and household happenings are given. Birdsong was interested in politics, and there are numerous references to the American Party in the entries made in 1855, 1856, and 1857.

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Mississippi. Dept. of Archives and History.

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One of the most famous incidents of anti-Catholic sentiment expression occurred August 11, 1834; non-Catholic rioters looted and burned the Ursuline Convent of Mount Benedict in Charlestown, MA. Anti-Catholic violence also erupted in Philadelphia when 13 people were killed in riots in 1835. Activities by the American Nativist Party in Kensington, Pennsylvania, in 1844 also sparked anti-Catholic riots. In the 1850s, the American Party, also known as the Know-Nothing Party, was partly founded on a...

Jefferson J. Birdsong Plantation

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Birdsong, Jefferson J., b. 1810

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