The Accidental Slaveowner: Revisiting a Myth of Race and Finding an American Family

Appendix 2. Timeline

appendix 2 Timeline 1783. End of American Revolutionary War. 1791, December 11. Mary Overton Cosby marries John Andrew. 1792. South Carolina imposes embargo on slave imports; lasts through 1803. 1794, May 3. James Osgood Andrew born in Wilkes County, Georgia. 1796, June 28. Ann Amelia McFarlane (future wife of James Osgood Andrew) born in Charleston, South Carolina. Daughter of Alexander McFarlane and Catherine Stattler McFarlane. 1798, April 27. Stephen Shell born in Newberry, South Carolina. 1801. Georgia law enacted banning manumission of negro slaves. 1802, April 18. Alexander McFarlane writes eyewitness account of slave trade atrocities in Rio Pongo. 1803, August 23. Rev. Stephen Shell in Newberry, South Carolina, purchases slave Richard (father of the future Nathan Boyd) from Harbert Tucker. 1803, December 12. Death of Alexander McFarlane from tropical illness in Rio Pongo, Sierra Leone. 1804, January 1. Resumption of the South Carolina slave trade (through 1807). 1805, April 25. Thomas Greenwood marries his first wife Nancy Mitchell in Greene County, Georgia. 1806, October 16. Auction of eight mandingos in Charleston—assigned to William Payne, to settle the debts of McFarlane and Player. 1809. Approximate birth of Nathan Boyd, future husband of Kitty. Child of Richard and Judith, in the household of Rev. Stephen Shell in Newberry, South Carolina. 1812, December. James Osgood Andrew admitted on trial and sent as junior preacher to the Edisto District, South Carolina. 1816, May 1. James Osgood Andrew marries Miss Amelia McFarlane in Charleston, South Carolina. 1817. Augustus Baldwin Longstreet marries Frances Eliza Parke in Greensboro, Georgia; he thus acquires about thirty slaves, and moves to Greensboro to reside with his wife and parents. 1818, June 25. Emily Harvie Thomas, recently arrived in Augusta, Georgia, weds Richard Tubman. 1819, March 9. Thomas Greenwood marries his second wife Ann Leonora Mounger in Greene County, Georgia. 1820–22. James Osgood Andrew pastor at St. John Methodist Church in Augusta, Georgia. 312 appendix 2 1822. Probable year of Kitty’s birth, evidently in Augusta, Georgia. 1822, December 11. Death of Rev. Stephen Shell (aged sixty-eight years) in Newberry District, South Carolina. He wills his son Stephen Shell the negro slave “Nathan” (the future Nathan Boyd). 1822–25. A. B. Longstreet serves as Superior Court judge, Ocmulgee Circuit, in Greensboro, Georgia. 1825. Death of Thomas Greenwood in Greene County, Georgia. 1827. Greene County court assigns slaves from the Thomas Greenwood estate to Ann Leonora Greenwood, her children, and the children of Thomas Greenwood’s first wife Nancy Mitchell. 1830, March 10. Death of John Andrew, the father of James Osgood. 1830. Federal census in Athens, Georgia, indicates James O. Andrew owns two slaves and that his mother, Mary Andrew, owns two slaves. 1831–32. James Osgood Andrew again pastor at St. John Methodist Church in Augusta, Georgia, assisted by George Pierce. 1832, April 12. Death of Lovey Powers, age fifty-five, in Augusta, Georgia. 1832, May 22. James Osgood Andrew and John Emory elected Methodist Episcopal bishops in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. 1833, July 1. Richard Tubman drafts will, specifying his desire to emancipate his slaves posthumously. 1836, July 10. Richard Tubman dies. His widow Emily begins the process of attempting to manumit his slaves. 1836 (fall). Georgia Legislature committee declines to endorse Emily Tubman’s request to manumit her late husband’s slaves. She begins correspondence with American Colonization Society and Maryland State Colonization Society on resettling the slaves in Liberia. 1836–37 (winter). James Osgood Andrew and his family move to Newton County, Georgia, from Augusta. Initially reside at the property Chestnut Grove near the Georgia Manual Labor School in Covington. 1837, March. Death of Hannah Fitz-Randolph Longstreet, mother of A. B. Longstreet. 1837, April. Around forty-two slaves from the Richard Tubman estate are transported by the Maryland State Colonization Society to “Maryland in Africa” in Liberia, where they found Mound Tubman. 1838, December. A. B. Longstreet admitted into Methodist ministry. Elected president of Emory College. 1839, April 3. Burial of Ann Powers, age ninety years, in Augusta City Cemetery. 1839. Emory College opens. 1840, February 10. A. B. Longstreet delivers inaugural address as president of Emory College in Oxford, Georgia. 1840, April 1. Mrs. Catherine Stattler McFarlane (mother of Ann Amelia McFarlane Andrew) dies at the home of her son-in-law James Osgood Timeline 313 Andrew in Oxford, Georgia. She wills Ann Amelia her slave “Billy” and her slave “Lucy” in trust to James Osgood Andrew in trust for her...