Documents in Year 1838                     

Links of Interest:

• Martin Van Buren, Eighth U.S. President

(1837-1841)

• Native Americans 1831-39:

Relocation of southeastern tribes to Oklahoma (southeast)
Viola, Herman I, North American Indians, Crown Publishers, New York: New York, 1996

Cherokee Trail of Tears - Cherokee Indians forced to move to Arkansas then Oklahoma.

• Slavery:

Frederick Douglass

escaped slavery in 1838 at 20 years old and became a famous abolitionist. He published his final autobiography The Life and Times of Frederick Douglass in 1881. This virtual tour of his home gives a feel for the late 1800s.