![]() ![]() Mary returned to Madame Talvande’s school in the fall of 1837, but following the death of her father in March 1838, she accompanied her mother back to Mississippi to settle financial affairs there. She wrote in her diary that Mississippi was where, “I received…my first ideas that negroes were not a divine institution for our benefit-or we for theirs.” Mary later viewed the Mississippi journey as an adventure that altered her attitudes toward Indians, slaves, and whites. ![]() The change from the cosmopolitan life of Charleston to the Mississippi frontier was drastic. He often dropped by to visit his niece at Madame Talvande’s and soon became enamored with classmate Mary Boykin Miller, who was only 13 years old.Įxaggerated rumors of Chesnut’s intentions prompted Stephen Miller to remove his daughter from the school in the fall of 1836 and bring her to Mississippi to join the rest of the family. The son of one of the state’s largest landholders, James had recently graduated from Princeton and was in Charleston studying law. James was born at Mulberry Plantation near Camden, South Carolina, January 18, 1815. ![]()
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