“Notes on the State of Virginia” (Jefferson)
Nott, Josiah C.
Nottingham, Samuel
Oberlin College
Ogden, Samuel
Ohio:
Quakers in
racial discrimination in
underground railroad in,
Ohio Anti-Slavery Society
Ohio River, as division between slave and free states
Oickle, Alvin F.
Oneida Institute
Ontarian, S. S.
Orthodox (Quakers)
sawatomie, Kans.
Osborne (slave holder)
Otis, James
Ottoman (brig)
Outland, Thomas
Overrals, James
Paden, H. F.
Paine, Thomas
Panic of 1819
Parker, Bird
Parker, Eliza
Parker, John
Parker, Theodore
Parker, William
Patriot War
patrollers
Patton, “Jolly Bob,”
Paul Anderson (steamboat)
Paxson, Jacob
Pearce, Thomas
Pearl incident
Pease, Nathaniel
Pennington, James (Jim Pembroke),
Pennsylvania: abolitionist movement in
emancipation law passed by
and Fugitive Slave Act
slavery in
slave trade in
underground railroad in
Pennsylvania Freeman,
Pennsylvania Society for Promoting the
Abolition of Slavery
Pennypacker, Elijah
Pensacola Gazette,
Peter (Harriet Jacobs’s friend),
Peterboro, N. Y.
abolitionist convention in
John Brown at
underground railroad in
Pettibone, Giles
Pettijohn (abolitionist)
Pettis, F. H.
Pettit, Eber
Philadelphia, Pa.: first abolitionist convention at
as first abolitionist stronghold
free blacks in
John Brown in
underground railroad in
vigilance committee in
Philanthropist,
Philomathian Society
Pierce, Franklin
Pinckney, Alexander
plantation system
Plymouth Church, Brooklyn, N. Y.
Plymouth Rock, S. S.
Polk, James K.
popular sovereignty
Portugal, slave trade by
Postl, Karl Anton
Pottawatomie, Kans., massacre (1856)
Poughkeepsie Journal,
Prendergast, Lieutenant
Presbyterians
Price, Benjamin
Price, Philip
Project Rescue
Providence, R. I., slave trade in
Provincial Freeman, 386
Purvis, Robert
utnam, David
Quakers:
in Civil War
in Delaware
early antislavery activities of,
education as priority for
in Indiana
in Maryland
in North Carolina
in Ohio
in organized antislavery movement,
prejudice among
racism among
theological rift within
racism
railroads
Ramsey, Mark
Randolph, John
Rankin, Adam Lowry
Rankin, Calvin
Rankin, Jean
Rankin, John
antislavery essays of
attack on home of
David Ruggles compared with
death of
fugitive slave “Eliza” and
Liberty Party and
Rankin, John, Jr.
Rankin, John P.
Rankin, Samuel
Rankin family
attack on
in Civil War
fugitives aided by
Rapier, William
Ray, Charles M.
Reconstruction
Reed, Enoch
Reeve, William
Refugee Home Society
Remond, Charles L.
Republican Party
Douglass in
Revere, Paul
Rhett, Robert B.
Rhode Island, slave trade in
Rce, David
Rice, Isaac J.
Richmond Palladium,
Ricketson, Gilbert
Riker, Richard
Riley, Amos (father)
Riley, Amos (son)
Riley, Hugh
Riley, Isaac
financial troubles of
Henson betrayed by
Henson’s relationship with
Riley, Isaac (fugitive)
Riley, Jerome
Riley, Matilda
Riley, Patrick
riots, race
Ripley, Ohio
attack on Rankins in
Ripley Bee,
Risely (farmer)
Robb, Adam
Roberts, Richard
Robinson, Rowland T.
Rochester, N. Y.
Rockville Sentinel,
Rogers, Timothy
Roper, Moses
Ross, Araminta, see Tubman, Harriet Ross, Ben
Ross, Ben, Jr.
Ross, Mary
Ross, Moses
Ross, Rit
Ross, Robert
Ross, William Henry
Ross (Logue neighbor and helper)
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques
Royal African Company
Royall, Isaac
Ruggles, David
attempted kidnapping of
background of
Ruggles, David (cont.) death of
failing health of
John Rankin compared with
Tappan’s break with
and Tom Hughes case
Rush, Benjamin
Sabine, Joseph F.
St. Catharines Refugee Slaves’ Friend
Society
Salmon, William
Sam (fugitive)
Sanborn, Franklin
Sandusky, Mansfield & Newark Railroad,
Sanitary Commission, U.S.
Sante-Domingue (Santo Domingo), slave uprising in
Savannah, Ga., slave trade in
Savannah Republican,
Sawyer, Samuel T.
Sayres, Edward
Scoble, John
Scomp, Samuel
Scott, Dred
Scott, George
Scott, Henry
Scott, Silas
Scott, Walter
secession
Northern threat of
of Southern states
Secret Six
Seminoles
Seminole War, First
Senate, U.S.
assault on Sumner in
and Compromise of 1850,
Southern representation in
Senegambians
Seventy, The (lecturers)
Sewall, Samuel
Seward, William H.
Shadd, Abraham
Shadd, Isaac
Shadd Cary, Mary Ann
Shadrach rescue
Sharpe, Mary Ellen Graydon
Shaw, Chancey
Shawnees
Shepherd, Hayward
Shotwell, A. L.
Siebert, Wilbur
Sierra Leone
Simon (fugitive)
Simons, Peter Paul
Sims, Mark
Sims, Thomas
slavery:
African ethnic groups preferred for,
African repatriation as solution to
auctions under
beginnings of
cotton industry and growth of
and education of slaves
family separations under<
br />
fugitives from, hunting of,
growth of
laws on
manumission and
Missouri Compromise and
occupations of slaves in
punishments under
rationales for
rebellions against
sexual exploitation under
transatlantic slave trade and growth of,
in Washington, D. C.
westward expansion and
women’s exploitation under
Slave’s Friend,
slave trade
British rulings against
legislation against
in Louisiana
mortality on ships in
in New Jersey
in Pennsylvania
profitability of
public opinion and
slave auctions in
in Virginia
Smallwood, Thomas
Smith, Francis
Smith, Gerrit: in abolitionist movement,
abolitionist movement’s split and
in Civil War
Cooper’s debate with
death of
in Jerry rescue
John Brown and
Kansas slavery issue and
land grant plan of
Liberty Party launched by
Pearl incident and
philanthropy of
Voice of the Fugitive financed by
Walker trial and
women’s rights movement and
Smith, James Lindsey
Smith, John
Smith, Peter
Smith, Samuel
Smith (Rankin attacker)
Society of Friends (Quakers), see Quakers South: abolitionist movement in,
cotton industry in
emancipation issue in
free blacks in
Harpers Ferry raid and
Jerry rescue and
Nat Turner uprising in
Parker resistance and
slavery in
slave trade in
underground railroad in
see also specific states and cities
South America
South Carolina: fugitive slave laws in
secession of
slavery in
slave trade in
South Carolina State Gazette,
Spain
Sprigg, Ann
Stafford, Stepney
Stanley, Abel
Stanley, Jesse
Stanton, Borden
Stanton, Elizabeth Cady,
Stanton, Henry B.
“Star Spangled Banner” (Key)
Stearns, George L.
Stephen (Harriet Jacobs’s uncle),
Stevens, Aaron
Stevens, Thaddeus
Steward, Mary Ellen
Stewart, Alvan
Stiles, Ezra
Still, Charity
Still, Levin
Still, William
in Civil War
death of
Harpers Ferry raid and
Stone, Lucy
Stormont, David
Stowe, Calvin E.
Stowe, Harriet Beecher,
Stuart, J. E. B.
Subversives (Harrold)
Sullivan, Mike
Sumner, Charles
Sumter, Fort
Supreme Court, U.S.:
Dred Scott decision of
slave holders in
Syracuse, N. Y.:
Jerry rescue in
John Brown in
underground railroad in,
vigilance committee in
Syracuse Journal,
Tabb (slave holder)
Tamar (fugitive)
Tappan, Arthur
Tappan, Lewis
Ruggles’s break with
Walker trial and
Tatem, John
Taylor (slave holder)
telegraph
temperance movement
Tennessee
emancipation in
secession of
Texas: secession of
slavery in
Thompson, Dauphin
Thompson, John
Thompson, William
Thompson (slave holder)
Thoreau, Henry David
tobacco industry
in Canada
and growth of slave trade
Todd, John
Topp, William H.
Torrey, Charles
Truth, Sojourner
Tubman, Harriet
birth of
in Civil War
Concklin and Fairbank compared with,
death of
disguises and ruses of
escape of
family members rescued by
forcefulness of
John Brown dream of
John Brown on
name change of
rescues effected by
seizures of
as symbol
on Uncle Tom’s Cabin
underground railroad and,
Tubman, John
Turner, Nat
Twain, Mark
Two Years Before the Mast (Dana)
Tyler, John
Uncle Tom’s Cabin, or Life Among the Lowly
(Stowe)
Eliza’s story in
model for Eliza in
model for Uncle Tom in
underground railroad: abolitionist movement compared with,
beginnings of
blacks in
in Boston
in Canada
Christiana resistance and
Civil War and
Coffin as “president” of,
conductors on
,
in Delaware
in Detroit
financing of
as first civil rights movement
first operating cell of
Fugitive Slave Law and
“general managers” of
Harpers Ferry raid and
Harriet Tubman as metaphor for
in Illinois
in Indiana
infrastructure of
Jerry rescue and
John Brown in
in Kentucky
localism of
in Maryland
militancy’s rise in
newspaper of
in New York state
number of fugitives assisted by
number of participants in
in Ohio
openness of
Parker incident and
in Pennsylvania
in Philadelphia
political disaffection and growth of
railroads and expansion of
Republican Party and
seagoing rescue efforts of
Shadrach rescue of
ships used by
in South
stationmasters on
stations of
terminals of
terminology used in
Tubman and
Uncle Tom’s Cabin and
in Washington, D. C.
women in
Underground Railroad from Slavery to
Freedom, The (Siebert)
“Underground Railroad Quickstep, The,”
Union Literary Institute
United States of America:
Quaker population of
slave population in
transatlantic slave trade outlawed by
Unthank, Jonathan
Unthank, Pleasant
Utica, N. Y.
abolitionist convention in
Utica Anti-Slavery Society
Van Buren, Martin
Vandenburgh, Origen
Vergennes, Vt.
Vermont
Fugitive Slave Law and
underground railroad in
Vermont Anti-Slavery Society
Vesey, Denmark
Vickers, John
Vickers, Thomas
Vi
ctoria, queen of England
Vigilance Committee of New York,
Vincennes Gazette,
Virginia: emancipation in
free blacks in
fugitive slaves in
secession of
slavery in
slave trade in
slave uprisings in
transatlantic slave trade banned in
underground railroad in
Vision (ship)
Voice of the Fugitive,
Volney, C. F.
voting rights
Walker, David
Walker, Jonathan
as abolitionist icon
branding of
capture of
death of
rescue attempt of
trials of
Ward, Samuel Ringgold
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