This collection of primary sources examines the history of emotions in the United States, spanning the years 1800-1865. This period was filled with dramatic political, social and economic changes, including the development of a new national identity, the spread of chattel slavery, the rise of capitalism, the surge of religious revivalism, military and settler expansion into Native American, Mexican, and British lands, and the Civil War. While these events have been well studied, this collection explores these upheavals using the lens of the history of emotions. The volumes bring together a rich group of primary sources demonstrating how Americans responded to these large public events. It also includes sources that trace the more private and subjective experiences of daily life during the 19th century, for the era was witness to significant transformations in ideals of family and romantic love, conceptions of honour and courage, anger and indignation, selfishness and greed. It also was a period when new emotions like homesickness and boredom appeared. This fascinating collection of materials, alongside extensive editorial commentary, will be of great interest to students of American History and the History of Emotions.
This collection of primary sources examines the history of emotions in the United States, spanning the years 1800-1865. This fascinating collection of materials, alongside extensive editorial commentary, will be of great interest to students of American History and the History of Emotions.
Volume I 18001865
Introduction
Bibliograph
PART 1: Settler Colonialism and Native American emotions
1 Ma-Ka-Tai-Me-She-Kia-Kiak Describes Daily Life and How It Changed
2 On Indian Removal
Andrew Jackson
3 The Choctaws Farewell
George W. Harkins
4 Address on the Present Condition and Prospects of the Aboriginal
Inhabitants of North America, with Particular Reference to the Seneca Nation,
Delivered at Buffalo, New York
Maris B. Pierce
5 Eulogy on King Philip, as Pronounced at the Odeon, in Federal Street,
Boston
William Apess
PART 2: Civic Emotions
6 Of the Mode of Education Proper in a Republic
Benjamin Rush
7 Love of Country and The Soldiers Adieu
8 The Cincinnati Election Disgraceful Riot
9 Fredrika Bremer Describes Indignation Meetings
10 The Sumner Outrage; Indignation Meeting at the Tabernacle. Tremendous and
Enthusiastic Gathering
11 William Apess on Plymouth Rock and the 4th of July
12 What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?
Frederick Douglass
13 Declaration of Sentiments
Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott
PART 3: Managing Emotions
14 David Gouverneur Burnet, to Mattie
15 A Mothers Charge
Sarah A. Campbell
16 Advice to Young Ladies on Their Duties and Conduct in Life
T. S. Arthur
17 With Sabre and Scalpel: The Autobiography of a Soldier and Surgeon
John Allan Wyeth
18 The First Quarrel
Alice Neal
19 The Fugitive Blacksmith; Or, Events in the History of James W.C.
Pennington, Pastor of a Presbyterian Church, New York, Formerly A Slave in
the State of Maryland, United States
James W. C. Pennington
20 My Bondage and My Freedom
Frederick Douglass
PART 4: Slavery and Emotion
21 The Slaves New Years Day
Harriet A. Jacobs
22 What Became of the Slaves on A Georgia Plantation? Great Auction Sale of
Slaves at Savannah, Georgia, March 2d and 3d, 1859; A Sequel to Mrs. Kembles
Journal
23 Cannibals All! Or, Slaves Without Masters
George Fitzhugh
24 A Sorrowful Face
Elizabeth Keckley
25 My Bondage and My Freedom
Frederick Douglass
PART 5: Love
26 Spiritual Welfare of Children
Bradley Miner
27 The Love Letters of Theodore Weld and Angelina Grimk
28 Advice to Young Ladies on Their Duties and Conduct in Life
T. S. Arthur
29 The Family Monitor, Or a Help to Domestic Happiness
John Angell James
30 Abream Scriven Writes to His Wife, Dinah Jones, Sept. 19, 1858
31 Jonathan Zimmermans Letters to Benjamin Kenaga
32 The Diary of Albert Dodd, 1837 (excerpts)
33 Ma-Ka-Tai-Me-She-Kia-Kiak Describes the Crane Dance and Courting among the
Sac
PART 6: Grief
34 Ma-Ka-Tai-Me-She-Kia-Kiak Describes Mourning among the Sac
35 Comfort for the Widow
Fanny Fern
36 Mother, What Is Death?
37 Green-Wood Cemetery
Nehemiah Cleaveland
38 Charles Balls Account of a Funeral of an Enslaved Child
39 Customs of the Slaves, When One of Their Number Dies
Peter Randolph
PART 7: The Market Revolution
40 The Tablet
41 The Love of Money Sets the Whole Animal Machine in Motion
Benjamin Rush
42 Hasting to be Rich. A Sermon, Occasioned by the Present Excitement
Respecting The Gold of California, Preached in the Cities of New Haven and
Bridgeport, Jan. and Feb. 1849
E. L. Cleaveland
43 A Letter from Mary Lucinda Hovey to Elizabeth M. Stevens, August 8, 1847
44 The Spirit of Discontent
Almira
45 Thomas Butler Gunn on His Love of and Loathing for Money
46 The Ruling Passion of Men
47 Singular Attempt at Suicide
48 Best Temperament for a Business Man
49 Are We a Happy People?
PART 8: Emotion, Immigration, and Migration
50 Men, Manners and Things in Iowa
51 A True Picture of Emigration
Rebecca Burlend
52 A Yankee Trader in the Gold Rush; The Letters of Franklin A. Buck
53 Mary Ballous Letters to Her Son
54 The Emotional Effects of Piano Music on Gold Miners
Rosana Margaret (Kroh) Blake Alverson
PART 9: Technology and Emotional Life
55 A Kind and Wise Hint
56 Quick Travel
Samuel Breck
57 The Atlantic Telegraph: A Discourse Preached in the South Congregational
Church, Brooklyn
Rufus W. Clark
58 Delia Locke on the Trans-Atlantic Telegraph
59 Daguerreotypes
60 Delia Locke on Photography
61 Abigail Mansur Pleads for Daguerreotypes
PART 10: The Civil War
62 Keep Up Good Courage, E. Hill to Bruce Elmore
63 Two Brothers Fallen
Hawkeye
64 The Death of Lieutenant Henry Ropes
George Anson Bruce
65 Just Before the Battle, Mother
Geo F. Root
66 Bruce Elmore Writes to His Wife, Libbie Elmore
67 Letter from Richmond
G. H. White
68 Letter from South Carolina
John Collins
69 Mary Livermore Tries to Raise Soldiers Morale
70 The Evils of Youthful Enlistments and Nostalgia
De Witt C. Peters
71 Lincolns Proclamation
72 Retaliation in Camp
Susan J. Matt is Presidential Distinguished Professor of History at Weber State University, and serves as the Universitys Director of Interdisciplinary Collaborations. Her research has been supported by funding from the Mellon Foundation, Duke University, Radcliffe College, and Yale University.
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