The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism (106 page)

Compromise of 1850 and,
332–333
,
335
,
339–340
,
342

expansion of slavery and,
300–301
,
302
,
303

proslavery argument of,
329–332

substantive due process and,
329–331
,
338
,
369
,
377

California,
336–337
,
338–339
,
340

Cameron, Paul,
363–365
,
394

Campbell, Israel,
131–132
,
134
,
136
,
211–213

Canada,
42
,
68

Capitalism,
xviii–xix
,
42–43
,
77–83
,
85–92
,
127–131
,
141–143
,
178–185
,
191
,
229–233
,
239–243
,
257–258
,
292
,
317–323

creative destruction and,
86
,
184

right-handed power and,
90

and slavery, expansion of both,
33
,
413

Caribbean Islands,
3
,
4
,
42
,
297

Certificate of good character,
175
,
176 (photo)
,
177 (table)
,
178 (table)
,
180

Chase, Salmon,
371
,
372–373
,
388–389

Chew, Beverley,
86–87
,
89

Child, Lydia Maria,
314
,
315

Christianity, African-American,
210–213

Citizenship, birthright, for African Americans,
408

Civil rights movement,
407

Civil War/Civil War era,
393
,
397–407
,
414

abolishment of slavery and,
405

African-American marriages during,
404–405

African-American voting rights and,
406–407
,
408
,
409
,
411

African Americans as soldiers in,
402–405

Battle of Fort Sumter,
395

cotton production during,
398–400

end of,
406

post-, and treatment of African Americans,
407–410

states’ rights as cause of, apologists’ lie about,
390
,
409

threat of, and Missouri crisis,
155
,
156–157

veterans’ pensions and,
397–398
,
405
,
411

Claiborne, William C.,
49–55
,
59
,
60–61
,
64
,
66

Clarkson, Mary,
241–242
,
287

Clay, Cassius,
314

Clay, Henry,
91–92
,
141–142
,
156
,
157–158
,
218
,
392
,
393

banks and,
250
,
251–252
,
254
,
256

Compromise of 1850 and,
337–339
,
341

Groves v. Slaughter
and,
288–289

Texas and,
302–303

Clothing, of enslaved people,
114
,
122

Coffle(s),
1
,
22
,
26 (photo)
,
32
,
36

conflicts and alliances in,
25

in the US Capitol,
27
,
28 (photo)

Colbert, January,
261–262

Colbert, William,
261–262
,
263 (photo)

Collins Axe Works,
320–321
,
322

Colonial America,
3–4

Compromise of 1850,
332–342
,
346
,
347
,
366
,
372

The Confessions of Nat Turner
(Turner),
207

Conflict, among enslaved people,
149–150

Congress, U.S.

and expansion of slavery, in northern free states vs. southern slave states,
332–342

expansion of slavery and,
255–258
,
297–304

and slave representation in the House of Representatives,
9–10
,
20
,
153–154
,
324

See also specific representatives and senators

Consolidated Associated of Planters of Louisiana (C.A.P.L.),
245–248
,
249
,
254
,
267

Constitution, U.S.,
9
,
12
,
312
,
313

interest as governing principle shaping,
10–11

and slavery, ban on,
329–331

substantive due process and,
329–331

Constitutional Convention of 1787,
9–10
,
40

Corn-shucking competitions, and enslaved people,
158–160
,
161 (photo)

Cornish, Samuel,
194–195
,
198

Cotton gin,
18
,
19 (photo)
,
82
,
116

Cotton mills, northern,
312
,
317

Cotton picker, mechanical,
116

Cotton picking,
125 (photo)
,
130 (photo)

skill/experience in,
136–139

Cotton prices,
173
,
174 (fig.)
,
176
,
269–270
,
311–312
,
314

Cotton production,
18
,
112–114
,
114 (table)
,
125–131
,
127 (fig.)
,
129 (table)
,
172
,
271–272
,
413

banks, slave trade, politics and,
229–233
,
238–239
,
244–259

and capitalism,
xviii–xix
,
42–43
,
77–83
,
85–92
,
127–131
,
141–143
,
178–185
,
191
,
229–233
,
239–243
,
257–258
,
292
,
317–323

during Civil War,
398–400

daily quota per enslaved person and,
126
,
386–387
,
410

economic growth and,
229

in the 1850s,
350
,
359
,
386–387

enslaved people transferred to southwestern states and,
185

labor systems and,
115–118
,
121–122
,
123
,
130
,
135–136
,
149

and northern industry, expansion of,
317–322
,
322–323

postslavery,
410

role of, in northern vs. southern states,
323

Cotton productivity, and weigh-in/quotas/whipping/torture,
131–136
,
132 (photo)
,
135 (photo)
,
139–144
,
197
,
363–365

Cotton textile industry,
80–82
,
317
,
319
,
323–324