slave auctions
slave-catchers
slaveholders
slavery, slaves
and admission of Missouri
as allegedly incapable of exercising power
animalization of, see animalization, dehumanization
British oppression vs.
Christianizing of, 1.1, nts.1
Christians as, 7.1, 7.2, nts.1
colonization of, see colonization movement
compared to other forms of oppression
contagion of liberty among
domestication as model for
etymology of word, 1.1, nts.1
expansion westward of
freedmen’s relationship with, 2.1, 2.2
internalization and, itr.1, 1.1, 1.2, 8.1, 11.1, epi.1
justification for
juvenilization in
legacy of, 1.1, 1.2
legal challenges in U.S. to
legal petitions of, 2.1, 7.1
manumission’s effect on
physical cruelty of
in Plato’s cosmology
poor whites and
racism and
renting out of
“road to extinction” argument and, prf.1, prf.2, epi.1
Sambo image and, 1.1, 8.1
servility of
sex between masters and
U.S. Constitution and
women as
in World War II
worldwide outlawing of, 11.1, epi.1
slaves, fugitive, prf.1, 8.1, 8.2, 9.1, 11.1
as cause of Civil War
cities as assembly places of
in Civil War
Douglass’s aid to
economic value of
female
number of, 9.1, 9.2
rehumanization achieved by
on Underground Railroad
see also Fugitive Slave Law; maroons
slaves, insurrections of
abolitionist movement on
American Revolution as
associated with recently imported Africans
freedmen in
as less frequent after 1790
in Tigris-Euphrates delta
see also specific insurrections
slave trade, itr.1, 1.1, 4.1, 6.1, 10.1, 10.2, 11.1, epi.1
alleged benefits of
American Revolution and restrictions on
British abolition of, 2.1, 6.1, 10.1, 11.1, 11.2, nts.1, nts.2
British and French opposition to, 2.1, 2.2
Dutch abolition of
Haitian Revolution attributed to
to Iberia and Atlantic Islands, 1.1, nts.1
interstate, abolition of
Napoleon’s desire to reinstate
petitions against
possible reestablishment of
South Carolina’s reopening of
U.S. abolition of
Slave Trade Act (1819)
Slavs, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, nts.1
Slim, William
Smith, David Livingstone
Smith, Gerrit, itr.1, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, nts.1
Smith, Goldwin
Smith, Henry
Smith, James McCune, prf.1, 4.1, 7.1, 8.1, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, epi.1, nts.1
Société des colons américains
Society for the Mitigation and Gradual Abolition of Slavery
Society of Inquiry
Society of Inquiry Respecting Missions, 6.1, 6.2
Society of West Indian Planters and Merchants
Socrates
solidarity
Somerset decision
“Sonnet to Chillon” (Byron)
Sonthonax, Léger-Félicité
Souls of Black Folks (Du Bois)
South Africa
South Carolina, 2.1, 9.1, epi.1, nts.1
Acadians supplied by
black troops opposed in Revolution by
slave trade reopened by
Southern U.S.
proportion of whites in
racial distinction in, 2.1, 2.2
white refugees from French colonies in
Soviet Union, prf.1, 3.1
Spain, Spaniards, 1.1, 3.1, 10.1, epi.1
French struggle for Caribbean with, 2.1, 2.2
in Haitian Revolution, 1.1, 2.1, 2.2
Jews deported from, 1.1, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, nts.1
Moors deported from, 3.1, 3.2, nts.1
Spanish American War
Spanish Louisiana
Spectator
Spence, Thomas
Stampp, Kenneth M.
Standing Committee of West India Planters and Merchants
Stanfield, John, nts.1, nts.2
Stanley, Edward, 10.1, 10.2, 10.3, 10.4, 10.5
State Department, U.S., 10.1, nts.1
Stauffer, John, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 9.1, nts.1
Stein, Judith
Stephen, George, 10.1, 10.2
Stephen, James (the younger)
Stephen, James (the elder), 10.1, 10.2, 11.1, nts.1
Stewart, Maria
Still, William
Stockton, Robert Field
Stoics
Stowe, Harriet Beecher, prf.1, 4.1, 7.1, 8.1, 8.2, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3, 10.1, 11.1
Stuart, Charles, 10.1, 11.1
Sturge, Joseph, 10.1, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3
Sudan
sugar, 2.1, 2.2, 10.1, 10.2, 10.3, 10.4, 10.5, 10.6, epi.1, nts.1
Sugar Duties Act (1846)
Supreme Court, U.S.
Sweet, James H.
Swift, David, 7.1, nts.1
Switzerland
Talmud
T’ang Dynasty
Tappan, Arthur, itr.1, 7.1, 8.1, 9.1
Tappan, Lewis, itr.1, 8.1, 9.1
taxes, 2.1, 2.2
Taylor, Nathaniel, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3
Teague, Hilary
temperance movement, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4, 11.1
Tennessee
freedmen disenfranchised in
Teutonic Knights
Texas, 1.1, 10.1
admission of
Thatcher, George
Thirteenth Amendment, prf.1, itr.1, 5.1, 9.1, 10.1, 10.2, 11.1, epi.1, epi.2, epi.3, epi.4
Thomas, Evan
Thomas, Keith, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3
Thome, James A., 10.1, 10.2, 10.3
Thompson, Charles
Thompson, George, 10.1, 10.2, 10.3, 11.1
Thompson, James
Thoreau, Henry David
Thornton, William
Thoughts on African Colonization (Garrison), 7.1, 7.2, 11.1
Tigris-Euphrates delta
Tillich, Paul
Timbucto
Times (London), 2.1, 2.2, 10.1, 10.2, 10.3, 11.1, epi.1
tobacco
Tom, King
Tory Party, U.K.
To Secure These Rights
transcendent whiteness
Transvaal
Trelawny Town Maroons, 2.1, 4.1
Trinidad, 2.1, 10.1, 10.2, 10.3, nts.1
slaves demanded by
tropical disease
Trotsky, Leon
Truman, Harry S.
Truth, Sojourner
Tubman, Harriet, 9.1, 9.2
Tubman, William V. S.
Turkey
Turnbull, David
Turner, Henry McNeal
Turner, Nat, 7.1, 8.1, 8.2, 9.1, 9.2, 10.1, nts.1
Tuscany
Tuskegee Institute, 5.1, 5.2
Tutsis
Tyler, John, 4.1, 11.1
Tyson, Edward
Uganda
Ulster
Uncle Tom’s Cabin (Stowe), 4.1, 8.1, 9.1, 9.2, 10.1, 11.1
Underground Railroad, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3, 9.4, 10.1
blacks as organizers of
Underground Railroad, The (Sieburt)
Underground Railroad and Freedom Center
Unitarians
United Nations, 11.1, epi.1
United States
British pressure for emancipation in
free black population growth in
Haitian Revolution celebrated in
Haiti quarantined by
Muslim stereotypes of blacks and
population growth in
slave population growth in
West Indies as focus of
United States Telegraph
Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA), 3.1, 5.1, 5.2, nts.1
Upper Guinea
Upper Mesopotamia
Upshur, Abel
urban frontier
urbanization
Utah
“Utopia” (More)
Vai
Van Buren, Martin
Vandine, Charlotte
Vastey, Pompée Valentin
Venezuela
Vermont, 2.1, 6.1, 7.1, 7.2
slavery outlawed in, 9.1, epi.1, nts.1
Vesey, Denmark, 2.1, 2.2, 6.1, 8.1, 8.2, 9.1, 10.1, nts.1
Vicksburg, Battle of
Victoria, Queen of Britain
vigilance committees, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3, 9.4, nts.1
Vincent, Henry
Virginia, itr.1, 1.1, 3.1, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 9.1, 9.2, epi.1
Americo-Liberians from
debate on emancipation and deportation in, 7.1, 8.1
free blacks in
growth of black population in
manumission banned in
runaway slaves from
slave conspiracies and revolts in, itr.1, 2.1, 7.1, 8.1, 8.2, 9.1, 10.1, nts.1
Virginia Argus
Virginia Company
Virgin Islands
Vital, David
Volney, Comte de
Voltaire, 1.1, nts.1
voting rights, 2.1, 2.2, 6.1, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3
wage slavery, prf.1, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 11.4, epi.1
Walker, David, 2.1, 6.1, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 7.4, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 9.1, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, epi.1, nts.1, nts.2
on animalization, prf.1, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3
colonization movement opposed by
death of
Haiti as influence on
Walker, William, epi.1, epi.2
Walzer, Michael, 3.1, 3.2
Ward, J. R.
Ward, Samuel Ringgold, 4.1, 11.1, 11.2
War Department, U.S.
Wardlaw, Ralph, 10.1, 10.2
Ward Societies
Warner, Robert A.
War of 1812, 7.1, 11.1, epi.1
blacks in, prf.1, 7.1
Washington, Booker T., 5.1, 5.2
Washington, Bushrod
Washington, D.C., 8.1, 8.2, 9.1
abolition of slavery in
Washington, George, 2.1, 2.2
Washington, Madison
Water-Cure Hospital
Watkins, William, 7.1, 7.2
Watson, J. L.
Weber, Benjamin David
Webster, Daniel, 9.1, 10.1
Wedderburn, Robert
Wedgwood, Josiah, 2.1, nts.1
Weekly Anglo-African
Weizsäcker, Ernst von
Weld, Theodore Dwight, itr.1, itr.2, 6.1, 10.1, 10.2, 11.1, nts.1, nts.2, nts.3
West Africans
West India
West India Bank
West India Question, The: Immediate Emancipation Safe and Practical (Stuart)
West Indies, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 6.1, 8.1, 10.1, 10.2, 10.3, 10.4, 10.5, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, epi.1, nts.1, nts.2
black refugees from
West Virginia, epi.1, epi.2
Wheatley, Phillis
Whig Party, British, 10.1, 10.2
White, Charles, 1.1, nts.1
White Over Black (Jordan)
White Slaves of England, The (Cobden)
Whitfield, James M.
Whitman, Walt
Wilberforce, William, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 7.1, 10.1, 10.2, 10.3, 10.4, 10.5, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, nts.1
Wilberforce Colony
Wilkeson, Samuel
Williams, Eric
Williams, Peter
Williamson, Adam, 2.1, 2.2
Willis, Cornelia Grinell
Willis, Mary Stace
Willis family
Wilmington, N.C., 8.1, 8.2
Winch, Julie
Windward Islands
Winthrop, John, 2.1, 3.1, 4.1
Wisconsin Supreme Court
women
as abolitionists, 8.1, 8.2
as slaves
Woodson, Grandville B.
Woodson, Lewis
Woolman, John
Worcester, Samuel
Works Progress Administration (WPA), itr.1, 11.1
World Antislavery Conventions, 11.1, 11.2
World on Fire, A: Britain’s Crucial Role in the American Civil War (Foreman)
World War I
World War II
Wounded Knee
Wright, Elizur, 6.1, 8.1
Wright, Henry Clarke
Wright, Theodore S., 7.1, 7.2, 8.1, 8.2
xenophobia
Xenophon
Yancy, Allen
Yellin, Jean Fagan, 9.1, 9.2, nts.1
yellow fever, 2.1, 2.2, 5.1
Yorktown, Battle of
Young, Edward
Young Ladies Domestic Seminary
Zanj, 1.1, 1.2
zebras
Zeppie, Dwallah
Zionism, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, nts.1, nts.2
A NOTE ABOUT THE AUTHOR
DAVID BRION DAVIS is Sterling Professor of History Emeritus at Yale University, and founder and Director Emeritus of Yale’s Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition. He has written and edited sixteen books, the most recent of which was Inhuman Bondage: The Rise and Fall of Slavery in the New World. He is also a frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books. He lives outside New Haven, Connecticut.
ALSO BY DAVID BRION DAVIS
Inhuman Bondage:
The Rise and Fall of Slavery in the New World
Challenging the Boundaries of Slavery
In the Image of God:
Religion, Moral Values and Our Heritage of Slavery
From Homicide to Slavery:
Studies in American Culture
Revolutions: Reflections on American Equality and Foreign Liberations
Slavery and Human Progress
The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Revolution, 1770–1823
The Slave Power Conspiracy and the Paranoid Style
The Problem of Slavery in Western Culture
Homicide in American Fiction, 1789–1859:
A Study in Social Values
The Great Republic, Part Three:
Expanding the Republic, 1820–1860
(coauthor)
The Antislavery Debate
(coauthor)
Ante-Bellum Reform
(editor)
Antebellum American Culture:
An Interpretive Anthology
(editor)
The Fear of Conspiracy: Images of Un-American
Subversion from the Revolution to the Present
(editor)
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