A Disease in the Public Mind (55 page)

Douglas, Stephen A.,
195
,
218
,
229–234
,
250–252
,
269

Douglass, Frederick,
4
,
246

Doyle, James P.,
198–199

Doyle, Mahala,
243

Ellison, William,
205

Ellsworth, Elmer C.,
278–279

Ellsworth, Oliver,
53

Ely, Alfred,
289

Emancipation

     
able-bodied blacks in the Continental army,
40–41

     
compensated,
110
,
127
,
163
,
173–175
,
232
,
292
,
296–297

     
French slaves,
69

     
Garrison's moral and spiritual commitment to,
100–101

     
Greeley's cry for,
291–292

     
Jefferson on,
37

     
Lafayette and Washington,
61

     
Lincoln's political tension over,
292–293

     
Missouri Compromise,
91–93

     
Quakers' push for,
62

     
Union generals' approach to,
292–293

     
Virginia's concerns over a race war,
283

     
Washington's decision to free his slaves,
59
,
63–65

     
westward expansion and,
49–51

     
See also
Abolition of slavery
;
Abolitionists
;
Slaves and slavery

Emancipation Proclamation,
293–300
,
310

Embargo,
83–84
,
87
,
101
,
178–179

Emerson, Ralph Waldo,
185
,
225–226
,
244
,
247

Emigrant Aid Company,
196

Eppes, John W.,
78

Everett, Edward,
252
,
254–255

Ewell, Richard S.,
282

Executive authority, Lincoln's use of,
281

Exposition of 1828,
116–117

“Faking” (media),
216–217

Farewell Address (Washington),
59–60
,
309–310

Federalism,
59–60

Federalists,
81–84
,
87–89
,
93–94
,
100
,
102–103

Fillmore, Millard,
184
,
219

Finley, Paul,
89

Floyd, William,
123

Force bill,
83–84
,
121
,
262

Foreign policy,
57–58

Fort Pickens, Florida,
265

Fort Sumter, South Carolina,
265–267
,
269
,
273–274
,
279
,
311

Forten, James,
89–90
,
104

Fortress Monroe,
106
,
270

Forty-ninth parallel,
168

France

     
British blockade,
83

     
Jefferson's election as president,
71–72

     
Jefferson's support of the Revolution in,
57–58

     
Napoleonic rule,
70

     
Saint-Domingue slave revolt,
67–70
,
72–79

     
support for the Continental Army,
42

     
Vesey's revolt, influenced by,
96

     
War of 1812,
84–86

Franklin, Benjamin,
62–63

Fredericksburg, Battle of,
298

Free blacks,
7–9
,
127
,
206
,
222

Free Soil Party,
214–215

Freedom of speech,
140
,
146

Fremont, John C.,
218
,
293

French Revolution,
61

Fugitive Slave Act,
143–146
,
185–187
,
196–197
,
225–226

Fugitive slaves,
158–160
,
182
,
236
,
292–293

Gag rule,
147–152
,
155–156

Gang system on plantations,
207–208

Garrison, Abijah,
101

Garrison, Fanny Lloyd,
102

Garrison, William Lloyd

     
abolitionist tensions,
137–138

     
American Colonization Society and,
109
,
111–112

     
biography,
101–102

     
British abolitionists and,
109–110

     
celebration of Union victory,
311

     
criticism of
The Liberator
and,
108–109

     
Dana and,
279

     
disunion,
153–155
,
263

     
education,
102–103

     
extremist views of,
138–139

     
fugitive slave laws,
186

     
hostile attitude,
99–100

     
John Brown's raid,
240

     
Lincoln and,
259
,
297

     
Lovejoy's martyrdom,
140–141

     
lynching plot,
139

     
Nat Turner insurrection,
105–108

     
political isolation,
100–101

     
public denunciations of,
111–113

     
subscribers' support of,
104

     
The Liberator,
97–99

     
The Slave Power,
178

     
Weld and,
129
,
131

     
Wilmot's Proviso,
172

Geary, John A.,
221

Genetic inferiority of blacks argued by Agassiz,
190–192
,
211

George III, King of England,
30

Gerry, Elbridge,
52

Ghent, Treaty of,
88

Glover, Joshua,
185

Grant, Ulysses S.,
291
,
305–307
,
311–312

Greeley, Horace,
216–217
,
230
,
279–280
,
289–293

Green, Israel,
12–13

Green, Shields,
13

Greene, Nathanael,
42–44

Grimké, Angelina,
133–134

Grimké, Sarah,
133–134

Griswold, Roger,
81

Guerilla warfare,
2–3
,
42
,
73–74
,
306

Habeas corpus,
185
,
276

Haiti,
76–79
,
94–96
.
See also
Saint-Domingue

Hall's Island, Virginia,
6

Hamilton, Alexander,
40
,
42–46
,
49
,
58
,
69–70

Hamlin, Hannibal,
296

Hammond, James Henry,
180

Harpers Ferry, Virginia,
1
,
3–11
,
13
,
237–239
,
243
,
247–248
,
271
,
277
,
286
.
See also
Brown, John

Harrison, Constance Gary,
239

Harrison, Robert Monroe,
193

Harrison, William Henry,
164

Hartford Convention,
88–89
,
103
,
118

Hayne, Robert Y.,
108–109
,
117–118
,
121

Hayward, Shepherd,
7

Hazard, Thomas,
20
,
22

Helper, Hinton Rowan,
210

Henry, Patrick,
61

Henson, Josiah,
201–205

Higginson, Thomas Wentworth,
223
,
246
,
248

Holmes, Oliver Wendell,
302–303

Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Jr.,
302–304

House divided,
231–232

House Foreign Affairs Committee,
165

Houston, Sam,
162

Howe, Julia Ward,
277

Howe, Samuel Gridley,
192
,
223
,
245
–
246
,
248

Hunter, David,
293

Ice Age,
190

Illinois,
91

The Impending Crisis in the South
(Helper),
210

Independence, American,
26–27

Indiana,
91
,
261–262

Industrial Revolution,
115
,
117

Industrialization,
54–55

Interstate slave trade,
144

Islam, slavery in,
16

Jackson, Andrew,
88
,
100
,
117
,
119–121
,
152
,
162
,
165–166
,
265–266
,
268–269

Jackson, James W.,
62
,
278–279

Jackson, Thomas “Stonewall,”
171
,
286

Jamaica,
193–194

Jay, John,
17
,
40
,
288–289

Jefferson, Martha,
49

Jefferson, Thomas

     
bankruptcy,
124

     
challenging the primacy of the Union,
60–61

     
Declaration of Independence,
28–32

     
election to the presidency,
67
,
71–72

     
embargo against Britain,
83–84
,
178–179

     
extermination of Haiti's white population,
77–79

     
foreign policy,
57–58

     
Louisiana Purchase,
75
,
78
,
81–82

     
Missouri Compromise,
93

     
New England disgruntlement with,
83

     
Notes on the State of Virginia,
35–37

     
Saint-Domingue slave revolts,
70–71
,
74

     
stance on slavery,
47–48

     
westward expansion,
49–51

     
Whiskey Rebellion,
58–59

Jeremiad,
103–104
,
178

Jewish-Americans,
253

John Brown's Body,
276–277
,
310

Johnson, Albert Sidney,
253–254

Johnson, Andrew,
301

Johnson, Louisa,
180