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Slave revolts
Amistad revolt, 152–153
colonial America, 23–25
concerns over the Missouri Compromise, 94–95
Harpers Ferry, 1–3, 5–6, 14
Middle Passage, 23
Nat Turner’s uprising, 105–108
slave patrols as prevention, 157–160
Southern fears of, 70–71, 123–125, 127–128, 145–146, 283
See also Saint-Domingue
Slave trade, 183
Slavery As It Is (Weld), 134, 202
Slaves and slavery
abolitionists call for ban on interstate slave trade, 144
Adams’s views of, 144–145
American Colonization Society, 89–91
as element in Jeffersonian-Republican system, 103
as secondary motive for war, 301–302
ban in the western states, 49–50
black brigade proposed by Laurens, 42–43
Calhoun’s support of, 165–166
constitutional amendment bans, 310
cotton gin, 55
Declaration of Independence, 29–32
early history, 15–16
European history of, 16–17
evolution of, 210
experiences of transported slaves, 22–23
Garrison’s commitment to immediate emancipation, 97–100
institutionalization of, 15–16
insurrections in early years, 23–24
Jefferson’s Notes on the State of Virginia, 35–37
Jefferson’s opposition to, 29
John Brown’s hatred of, 3–4
John Brown’s raid, 1–2
media coverage of, 217–218
military service in the American Revolution, 32–35
monetary wealth of Southern slaves, 209–210
push for expansion of, 181
Quaker opposition to, 17–22
Saint-Domingue, excessive brutality of, 68–69
Stowe’s views of, 201–202
The Liberator, 97–98
three-fifths stipulation at Constitutional Convention, 52–53
Virginia’s situation, 123–128
Washington’s hopes for emancipation, 55–56
Washington’s political maneuvering over, 57–58
Washington’s views on, 32–34
See also Emancipation
Smallpox, 22
Smith, Gerrit, 221–222, 237, 245, 268
Smith, Greene, 268
South Carolina, 95
American Revolution, 27
attack on Fort Sumter, 265–267
eagerness for war, 265
economic stagnation, 115–116
nullification, 120–121
slave patrols as prevention, 158
slave revolts, 23–25
tariff bills, 119–120
Spain, 16–17, 50, 72, 152–153
Squatter sovereignty, 195
Stanton, Benjamin, 262
Stanton, Edwin, 310
Stearns, George Luther, 223, 225, 248
Stephens, Alexander, 273–274, 280
Stevens, Aaron, 6
Stevens, Edward, 69, 70
Stevens, William, 10
Stock market crash, 115–116, 227
Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 187–190, 201– 203, 311
Stuart, J. E. B., 11–13, 237, 286
Sugar economy, 17, 21, 192–193
Sumner, Charles, 215–216, 261, 293
Supreme Court, U.S., 153, 182, 230, 304
Tallmadge, James, 91
Tammany Hall, New York, 112
Taney, Roger Brooke, 230, 276
Tariffs, 115–117, 119–120, 181
Taxation, 25–26, 48, 51, 58, 119–120, 208
Taylor, Stewart, 10
Taylor, Zachary, 168–170, 182, 195
Temperance, 130
Texas, 161–167, 197
Thomas, John, 92–93
Thompson, George, 110–111
Thompson, Waddy, 151
Thompson, William, 10
Thoreau, Henry David, 224, 226, 244
Thoughts on African Colonization (Garrison), 109
Timbucto, 222
Tobacco farming, 207
Tocqueville, Alexis de, 145
Toombs, Robert, 267
Tories, 100
Trade policy, 87–88
Travis, Joseph, 105
Treason, 12, 89, 120–121, 240–243, 312
Trist, Nicholas, 120
Truman, Harry S, 251
Tucker, St. George, 94
Turner, Nat, 105–107, 123–124, 270
Twigs, David, 255
Tyler, John, 165–167, 256–260, 265–266
Tyler, Julia, 258–259
Uncle Tom’s Cabin (Stowe), 187–190, 201–205, 238–239
Underground Railroad, 182, 197
Unionists, 120, 175, 184, 259, 266, 268–269, 272, 274, 288, 292, 301–304
Utah, 183
Vallandigham, Clement, 14
Van Buren, Martin, 119–121, 152, 172
Varnum, James, 39–40
Vaughan, Arthur, 106
Vaughan, Eliza, 106
Vaughan, Rebecca, 105–106
Vermont, 84
Vesey, Denmark, 95–96
Virginia
Battle of Bull Run, 283–288
capital of the Confederacy, 280
examining the slavery situation, 123–128
Lee’s fortification of, 282–283
Lee’s leadership, 273–274, 281–282
Lee’s refusal of command of the Union Army, 269–270
Lincoln’s response to secession, 264–265
political maneuvering to avoid secession, 265
secession, 255, 278–279
Wade, Benjamin, 261, 308, 311
Walker, David, 158
Walker, L. P., 265
War of 1812, 84–86, 169, 178–179
Washburne, Elihu, 262
Washington, Bushrod, 89
Washington, George
bankruptcy of the Continental Congress, 48
blacks in the military, 32–35, 40–41, 43, 205, 297–298
centralization of government, 51–54
death of, 64–65, 106
Everett’s biography, 254–255
Farewell Address, 59–60, 309–310
foreign policy, 57–58
Garrison’s criticism of, 101
importance of Farewell Address in Civil War, 302
Lafayette’s imprisonment, 61
Laurens’s death, 45
on John Quincy Adams, 174
preparation for war, 27
retirement, 63–64
stance on slavery, 47–48, 55–56, 62–63
Whiskey Rebellion, 58–59
Washington, Lewis W., 6–7, 12
Washington, Martha, 63–65
Wealth, 54–55, 208–209
Webster, Daniel, 117–119, 165, 183–184
Weld, Theodore Dwight, 129–135, 137, 155, 202
West Indies, 16–17, 24, 110–113, 134–135, 181, 192–194
Westward expansion, 49–51, 117, 161–168, 194–199, 214
Wheatley, Phillis, 32–33
Whig Party, 100, 135, 153, 164, 172–173, 182–184, 214, 219
Whipple, William, 40–41
Whiskey Rebellion, 58–59
Whitney, Eli, 54–55
Whittier, John Greenleaf, 144
Wilberforce, William, 100–101, 109
Wilderness, Battle of the, 304
Williams, Orton, 273
Wilmot, David, 172
Wilmot Proviso, 172, 183, 198
Wilson, James F., 295
Wise, Henry A., 14, 154, 243, 246, 271
Woolman, John, 18–22
Wright, Henry C., 247
Yellow fever, 73–74
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