Voices In Time Sports & Games 1846 | Brooklyn Playing Ball and Base Walt Whitman praises a whole new ball game.More
Voices In Time Arts & Letters 1849 | New York City American Idol Fighting over Shakespeare at Astor Place.More
Voices In Time Water c. 1843 | Lafourche Parish, LA Safe Passage Solomon Northup swims to freedom.More
Voices In Time Swindle & Fraud 1832 | Prairie du Chien Lie, Cheat, and Steal The white men do not scalp the head, they do worse—they poison the heart.More
Voices In Time Education 1827 | Hartford, CT Trivial Pursuit Catharine Beecher decries education for women as “irregular, superficial, and deficient.”More
Voices In Time Intoxication 1833 | Maryland Crowd Control “The holidays are part and parcel of the gross fraud, wrong, and inhumanity of slavery.”More
Voices In Time Swindle & Fraud c. 1850 | Mississippi River Warming Up the Mark Finding suckers on a Mississippi riverboat. More
Voices In Time Foreigners c. 1840 | New Bedford Strange Bedfellows Better to sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian. More
Voices In Time Home 1840 | Philadelphia Acquired Taste Edgar Allan Poe considers the philosophy of furniture.More
Voices In Time Democracy 1837 | Brookline, MA Remember the Ladies Angelina Grimké advocates for the almighty power of the petition.More
Voices In Time Swindle & Fraud c. 1828 | Edenton, NC False Reports Harriet Jacobs exposes the deceit of slaveholders. More
Voices In Time Migration 1836 | Washington, DC Against Our Will John Ross fights for his sacred inheritance.More
Voices In Time About Money c. 1850 | Mississippi River Playing the Market Huck and Jim ponder true wealth. More