A Disease in the Public Mind (54 page)

Benezet, Anthony,
22

Benjamin, Judah,
253

Bennett, James Gordon,
216–217
,
240

Benton, Thomas Hart,
117

Biblical history of slavery,
15–16

The Biglow Papers
(Lowell),
169–170

Black Republicans,
283

Blair, Francis Preston,
268–270

Blair, Montgomery,
266
,
269

Boisrond-Tonnerre, Louis Felix,
76

Bonaparte, Napoleon,
70–75
,
78
,
84–85
,
87
,
309

Booth, John Wilkes,
309

Boston tea party,
26–27

Boteler, A. R.,
262

Boyer, Jean-Pierre,
96

Branham, Caroline,
106

Brazil,
16–17

Breckinridge, John C.,
82
,
251

Britain

     
abolition of slavery in the West Indies,
110–113
,
134–135
,
181
,
192–194

     
blockade of French ports,
83

     
control of Mississippi River commerce,
50

     
cotton economy,
261–262

     
Cromwell's rule,
226

     
embargo against,
83–84
,
87
,
101
,
178–179

     
Garrison's abolitionist movement,
109–110

     
history of slavery,
16–17

     
incipient tyranny,
25–26

     
Jefferson's Declaration of Independence,
29–31

     
Jefferson's election as president,
71–72

     
Millerism,
138

     
Napoleon's abdication,
87

     
Oregon territory,
168

     
Quaker efforts for abolition,
21–22

     
sanctioning the slave trade,
20

     
tariff bills,
116

     
Texas's admission to the Union,
164

     
Treaty of Ghent,
88

     
War of 1812,
84–86

Broadnax, William Henry,
124
,
126–127

Brooks, Noah,
294
,
299
,
307–308

Brooks, Preston,
216

Brown, Albert Gallatin,
283

Brown, Jason,
199
,
224

Brown, John,
211
,
269–270
,
277

     
armed resistance to The Slave Power,
221–227

     
death of sons,
11–12

     
defeat of,
13–14

     
Harpers Ferry,
1–11

     
Lincoln's nomination,
249

     
Ohio,
196–199

     
Stuart's truce proposal,
12–13

     
trial and execution,
237–244
,
246–247

     
trial of backers,
245
,
248

Brown, John, Jr.,
197–198

Brown, Oliver,
4–5
,
10–11

Brown, Owen,
3
,
8
,
13
,
196

Brown, Watson,
10–11

Buchanan, James,
148–149
,
186
,
218–221
,
230
,
232
,
237
,
251
,
263
,
265–266

Bull Run, Battles of,
283–290
,
294

Burns, Anthony,
185–186
,
195
,
226

Burnside, Ambrose,
298

Burr, Aaron,
82–83

Butler, Andrew P.,
215

Butler, Benjamin F.,
292–293

Buxton, Thomas Folwell,
109–110

Calhoun, Andrew Pickens,
253

Calhoun, John C.,
116
,
119–120
,
146
,
149
,
165–166
,
180–181
,
183–184
,
248
,
250

California,
167–168
,
180–183

Calvinism,
196

Cameron, Simon,
272

Canada,
84–86
,
168
,
221

Caribbean colonies,
69–70
,
86–87
.
See also
West Indies

Cass, Lewis,
195

Chambrun, Adolphe, Marquis de,
309
,
313

Chandler, Zachariah,
308

Channing, William Ellery,
140

Chase, Salmon P.,
293

Chicago Tribune,
280–281

Chinese businessmen in Jamaica,
194

Christianity.
See
Religion

Christophe, Jean,
72
,
77

Civil rights, women's,
149–150

Clay, Henry,
84
,
89–93
,
164
,
173
,
181
,
183–184

Clinton, George,
49

Cobb, Howell,
182–183

Coles, Edward,
124–125

Colonization of slaves in Africa,
89–91
,
95–96
,
104
,
109
,
111–112
,
127
–
128
,
233

Committee on the Conduct of the War,
293

Committees of correspondence,
86

Compensated emancipation,
110
,
127
,
163
,
173–175
,
232
,
292
,
296–297

Compromise of 1850,
183–184
,
195

Confederacy,
180–181
,
280
,
283–284
.
See also specific individuals and events

Congress, U.S.

     
abolition in the District of Columbia,
148–149

     
abolitionist movement,
293

     
Adams's antislavery petitions,
146–148

     
admission of Texas,
163–167

     
Buchanan's message on secession,
254

     
fugitive slave law,
62

     
gag rule,
149–152
,
155–156

     
Harpers Ferry probe,
247–248

     
Lincoln's election to,
172–173

     
Lincoln's negotiated peace,
296–297

     
Lincoln's postwar policy,
308

     
Mexican War,
169

     
military spending,
290
,
299–300

     
Missouri Compromise,
91–93

     
New England secessionist rhetoric,
118–119

     
nullification crisis,
121

     
response to rebellion,
281

     
slavery-antislavery factions paralyzing,
182–183

     
tension over expansion of slavery,
215–216

     
War of 1812,
84–86

     
See also
Continental Congress

Congressional Globe,
268–269

Connecticut,
35
,
84
,
86
,
88

Constitution, Confederate,
253

Constitution, U.S

     
amendment banning slavery,
310

     
annexation of Texas,
165
,
167

     
Calhoun's Exposition of 1828,
116–117

     
development of,
51–54

     
gag rule,
148

     
Garrison's stance on slavery,
111

     
Lincoln and,
259
,
276
,
296–297

Constitutional Convention,
178–179
,
248

Continental Congress,
27
,
30–32
,
40
,
44
,
48–54
.
See also
Congress, U.S.

Coppoc, Edwin,
10
,
13

Cotton production,
54–55
,
115–116
,
180–181
,
207–208
,
261–262

Cresson, Elliot,
109
,
111

Cromwell, Oliver,
226

Cropper, James,
109

Cuba,
181

Cushing, Caleb,
250–251

Custis, George Washington Parke,
11
,
65
,
106
,
234

Custis, Nelly,
108

Dale, Sam,
120

Dana, Charles,
279–281
,
283
,
290

Darwin, Charles,
192

Davis, Jefferson,
277
,
305

     
Arrival in Richmond,
280

     
Bull Run,
287–288

     
Confederate presidency,
253

     
Cushing nomination,
250–251

     
Fort Sumter,
267
,
294–295

     
Lee and,
281–282

     
Mexican War,
171

     
mustering the Confederate army,
290

Declaration of Independence,
29–32
,
35
,
39
,
47–48
,
51–52

Declaration of independence (Saint-Domingue),
76

“Declaration of Independence by the Representatives of the Slave
Population of the United States of America” (John Brown),
3–4

Democracy in America
(Tocqueville),
145

Democratic Party,
184

     
Congressional Globe,
268–269

     
formation of,
100

     
Garrison's views of,
103

     
Lincoln nomination,
250–251

     
national convention,
218

     
slavery platform,
251–252

Dessalines, Jean-Jacques,
73
,
75–79

Disunion,
48
,
53–54
,
58
,
87
,
118–120
,
153–155
,
219
,
268
,
301–302

Dixie (anthem),
277–278
,
310

Dodge, William E.,
259