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INDEX
Page numbers in italics refer to illustrations.
Abbott, Sam, 127, 128, 129
Abbott, Walter, 73, 92, 93, 135, 137, 142
Adams County: black population in, 58; slave population in, 12
Adams County Circuit Court, 132–33, 145, 155, 157, 160
Adams County jail: Black and Burns in, 90, 93; Dana and Dockery in, 5, 80–86, 93, 155
African Americans. See Blacks
Alexandria, Va., Christ Church of, 36–37, 112
Aliases: black use of, 58; of Williams, 58, 88, 93, 194n13
Allen, George, 74, 75–77, 87
American Civil Liberties Union, 84
American Civil War. See Civil War
American Heritage Publishing, 14
Anderson, Charles, 102, 139, 142
Anderson, William, 11
Antioch Baptist Church, 3, 56, 102, 161, 167, 174
Architecture: Greek Revival, 2, 17; of Natchez mansions, 6–7
Aristocracy, southern: Dana as descendant of, 2, 111–12; Dockery as descendant of, 2, 111, 115; estates of, 8–9; Merrill in, 1–2, 6, 17, 105; in press coverage of Merrill murder, 1–2, 105, 111–12
Arkansas. See Pine Bluff
Armfield, John, 10
Army. See Confederate army; Union army
Arrests: of Black, 5, 90; of Burns, 2–3, 5, 90, 97; of Dana, 2, 4–5, 75, 154, 155; of Dockery, 2, 4–5, 75, 154, 155; of Ferguson, 78; of Geiger, 78; of Newell, 97, 100; of Smith (George), 100, 195n33