Celebrations Today – September 9
Holidays and observances
- Christian feast day:
- Charles Lowder (Church of England)
- Ciarán of Clonmacnoise
- Constance, Nun, and her Companions (Episcopal Church)
- Our Lady of Arantzazu (Oñati)
- Peter Claver
- Synaxis of Ss. Joachim and Anna, an Afterfeast. (Eastern Orthodox and Eastern Catholic Churches)
- September 9 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
- Armored Forces Day (Ukraine)
- California Admission Day (California, United States)
- Children’s Day (Costa Rica)
- Chrysanthemum Day or Kiku no Sekku (Japan)
- Day of the Victims of Holocaust and of Racial Violence (Slovakia)
- Independence Day or Republic Day, celebrates the proclamation of Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (North Korea) in 1948.
- Independence Day (Tajikistan), celebrates the independence of Tajikistan from USSR in 1991.
- Martyrs’ Day (Afghanistan) (date may fall on September 8, follows a non-Gregorian calendar)
- National Steak Au Poivre Day (United States)
- Remembrance for Herman the Cheruscan (The Troth)
- Wienerschnitzel Day (United States)
- Wonderful Weirdos Day (Chase’s Calendar of Events)
Celebrations Today – USA: September 9
National Teddy Bear Day
Care Bears Share Your Care Day
National Wiener Schnitzel Day
National Hug Your Boss Day – Changes Annually
National Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders Awareness Day
International Sudoku Day
National Steak au Poivre Day
National Tester’s Day
National Wonderful Weirdos Day
Today in US History: September 9
The Stono Rebellion
Group of “Contrabands” at Foller’s House
Cumberland Landing, Virginia,
James F. Gibson, photographer,
May 14, 1862.
Selected Civil War Photographs
Early on the morning of Sunday, September 9, 1739, twenty black Carolinians met near the Stono River, approximately twenty miles southwest of Charleston. At Stono’s bridge, they took guns and powder from Hutcheson’s store and killed the two storekeepers they found there. “With cries of ‘Liberty’ and beating of drums,” historian Peter H. Wood writes in the Encyclopedia of African-American Culture and History, “the rebels raised a standard and headed south toward Spanish St. Augustine…Along the road they gathered black recruits, burned houses, and killed white opponents, sparing one innkeeper who was ‘kind to his slaves.'” Thus commenced the Stono Rebellion, the largest slave uprising in the British mainland colonies prior to the American Revolution. Late that afternoon, planters riding on horseback caught up with the band of sixty to one hundred slaves. More than twenty white Carolinians and nearly twice as many black Carolinians were killed before the rebellion was suppressed. As a consequence of the uprising, white lawmakers imposed a moratorium on slave imports and enacted a harsher slave code.
Slaves frequently resorted to insurrection, first in the British colonies and later in the southern United States. At least 250 insurrections have been documented; between 1780 and 1864, ninety-one African Americans were convicted of insurrection in Virginia alone. The first revolt in what became the United States took place in 1526 at a Spanish settlement near the mouth of the Pee Dee River in South Carolina.
The Confessions of Nat Turner
Richmond
Thomas R. Gray, publisher, 1832.
Slavery — the Peculiar Institution in The African American Odyssey: A Quest for Full Citizenship
Between 1800 and 1831, African Americans instigated several ambitious rebellions in the American South. Among these were Gabriel’s Revolt, which began north of Richmond, Virginia, on August 30, 1800, and Vesey’s Rebellion, an 1822 conspiracy to incite as many 9,000 plantation and urban slaves in the vicinity of Charleston, South Carolina. Nat Turner’s Rebellion, the most effective slave revolt, erupted in Southampton County, Virginia, on the night of August 21, 1831. Nat Turner and his followers killed nearly sixty white people as they moved toward an armory at Jerusalem, Virginia. Halted mere miles from their goal, the approximately seventy-five insurgents were soon killed or captured by the militia. Turner’s November execution failed to assuage fears of continued insurrection. Across the South, renewed legislative efforts to forbid education and greatly restrict movement and assembly further constrained the lives of enslaved people.
- African American Perspectives: Pamphlets from the Daniel A. P. Murray Collection, 1818-1907 is a rich source of documents pertaining to the history of slavery; to explore this resource, search the collection on the keyword slavery. The collection also contains an address entitled “Nat Turner’s Insurrection,” delivered by Indiana lawyer George H. Burks in 1885.
- Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers’ Project, 1936-1938 contains more than 2,300 first-person accounts of slavery and 500 black-and-white photographs of former slaves. Browse the collection by State to read narratives and see photos from those areas.
Slave Quarters, The Hermitage
Savannah, Georgia, between 1900 and 1910.
Touring Turn-of-the-Century America: Photographs from the Detroit Publishing Company, 1880-1920 - Voices from the Days of Slavery: Former Slaves Tell Their Stories is a collection of almost seven hours of recorded interviews of twenty-three interviewees, born between 1823 and the early 1860s, who discuss how they felt about slavery, slaveholders, coercion of slaves, their families, and freedom.
- The interviews recorded in American Life Histories: Manuscripts from the Federal Writers’ Project, 1936-1940 include several recollections of the antebellum South from the perspectives of both white and black Southerners. Some of those interviewed were born before the Civil War and offer personal memories of that era, while others relate the experiences of their parents and grandparents before, during, and after the Civil War. Search the collection on slave or plantation to find these documents.
- Find more photographs documenting the history of the antebellum South. Search the American Memory collections of photographs and prints on slave or plantation.
- The African-American Mosaic exhibition contains additional resources for the study of African-American history and includes special sections on the movement to colonize American slaves in Africa and the movement to abolish slavery in the United States.
- Learn about black America’s quest for equality. Visit the online exhibition The African American Odyssey: A Quest for Full Citizenship. It includes sections on the history of slavery in America and on free blacks in the antebellum period.
Today in History – September 9-External Links
Today’s Weather in History
Today in Earthquake History
This Day in Naval History
Today’s Document from the National Archives
Today’s Events, Births & Deaths –Wikipedia
Today in History by AP
On this Day -1950 to 2005 – Today’s Story–BBC
On This Day: The New York Times
This Day in History –History.com
Today in Canadian History – Canada Channel
History of Britain that took place On This Day
Russia in History –Russiapedia