Nat Turner

Nat Turner

male, deceased (1831)
American rebel slave, American, Rebel, revolutionary, slave, slavery…antebellum
Nat, remembered today as Nat Turner was an American slave whose failed slave rebellion in Southampton County, Virginia, was the most remarkable...
Daniel Webster

Daniel Webster

male, deceased (1852)
eastern border, "Reply to Hayne", Webster-Hayne debate, attorney, Canada–United States border, nationalistic…antebellum
Daniel Webster (January 18 1782 - October 24 1852), was a leading American statesman during the nation's antebellum era. Webster first rose to...
Drew Gilpin Faust

Drew Gilpin Faust

female, 62 years old
Harvard University, historian, Radcliffe Institute, President of Harvard University, American university and college president, Bryn Mawr College alumni…antebellum
Historian Drew Gilpin Faust '68 will shatter one of America's oldest glass ceilings when she becomes the first woman to lead Harvard University in...
Kate Chopin

Kate Chopin

female, deceased (1904)
American women writer, vogue magazine, Louisiana Creole, From st. louis, missouri, Business Person, Missouri writer…antebellum
Kate Chopin (born Katherine O'Flaherty on February 8, 1850 - August 22, 1904), was an American author of short stories and novels, mostly of a...
George Fitzhugh

George Fitzhugh

male, deceased (1881)
from Virginia, slavery, antebellum, Virginia writer, Defender of slavery
George Fitzhugh (November 4, 1806 - July 30, 1881) was a social theorist who published radical racial and slavery-based sociological theories in...
Sterling Price

Sterling Price

male, deceased (1867)
Hampden-Sydney College alumni, politician, american civil war, Confederate Army general, from Missouri, slaveholder…antebellum
Sterling "Old Pap" Price (September 20, 1809 - September 29, 1867) was an antebellum politician from the U.S. state of Missouri and a Confederate...
Harry L. Watson

Harry L. Watson

male
Brown University, Jacksonian, antebellum, American, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, historian
Harry L. Watson is an American historian of the antebellum South, Jacksonian America, and the history of North Carolina. He is Director of the...
Phoebe Pember

Phoebe Pember

female, deceased (1913)
American, Jewish, Charleston, Jewish American, american civil war, Bostonian…antebellum
Phoebe Yates Levy Pember (August 18, 1823 - March 4, 1913) of Savannah, Georgia was the woman in charge of housekeeping and patient diet at one of...

Andrew Pickens

male, deceased (1838)
United States Secretary of War, Presbyterian, Charleston, United States Army officer, Princeton University alumni, from South Carolina…antebellum
Andrew Pickens, Jr. (November 13, 1779 - July 1, 1838) was an American military and political leader who served as the Democratic-Republican...
William Mahone

William Mahone

male, deceased (1895)
teacher's school, normal school, petersburg, Norfolk and Western, Atlantic, Mississippi and Ohio Railroad, African American…antebellum
William Mahone (December 1, 1826 - October 8, 1895), of Southampton County, Virginia, was a civil engineer, teacher, soldier, railroad executive,...