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The Atlantic Monthly
Charleston Mercury
Chicago Press and Tribune
Chicago Times
Chicago Tribune
Congressional Globe
Cosmopolitan Magazine
Daily Pantagraph
Harper’s Weekly
The Home Monthly
Illinois State Journal
Kansas Traveler
The Midland Monthly
The National Era
New York Evening Post
New York Herald
New York Times
New York Tribune
Quincy Daily Whig
Richmond Enquirer
Scribner’s Monthly
Smithsonian Magazine
Washington Union
Weekly Chicago Journal
The Youth’s Companion
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INDEX
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Page numbers of photographs appear in italics.
abolitionists, abolitionism, xviii, xx, 34, 38, 51, 62, 68, 92, 145, 163, 179, 190–91, 220, 272, 273, 347, 370, 373–74, 381, 478, 527, 528
Belknap and, 86–87
John Brown and, 158–59, 495, 498
Butler’s attack on, 85–86
Chaffee and Dred Scott case, 276
Chicago and, 573, 575
Congressmen as, 34, 36, 38, 39, 131, 229, 232, 463, 485, 510
donors to, 165, 166–67
Douglass and, 113–14, 389
first martyr of antislavery cause, 190, 505
Garrison and Garrisonians, xx, 61–62, 63, 65, 94, 159, 164, 165, 176, 218, 381, 399, 402, 478, 498, 620–21
German Americans and, 622
Helper and, 503
Illinois Republican Party and, 621
Lincoln and, 259, 260, 369–70, 381, 389, 399, 402, 619–22
Owen Lovejoy and, 190, 200, 251, 252
McLean and, 227
nonviolence vs. violent militancy, 166–67
politics of, as factional, 620
Republicans and, 177, 189, 218, 238, 251, 259, 260, 270, 353, 365
Secret Six, xviii, xxi, 469–76, 479, 484, 620
Steward and wife Frances, 34, 36, 510
Sumner and, 54, 63, 68, 76, 77
Van Zandt case and, 226
women as, 34, 63, 68, 92, 243, 272, 469
See also antislavery activists; Brown, John; Garrison, William Lloyd; specific people
Abolition House, 38, 45, 92
Adams, Charles Francis, xviii, 53, 59, 65, 69, 70, 71, 75, 76, 610, 623–24
Adams, Henry, 76–77
Adams, John, 60, 86
Adams, John Quincy, 4, 34, 41, 57, 59, 65, 68, 69–70, 71, 78, 92, 174, 227, 571
Adams, Samuel, 60
Addams, Jane, 388
Addams, John, 388
Alabama, 51, 79, 90, 104, 150, 153, 190, 209, 271, 274, 446, 452, 499
Douglas’s Montgomery speech, 611–13
secession and, 326, 499, 508, 614
Ultras in, 508, 541, 552
Alabama Platform, xiv, xvi, 543, 549, 552–54, 561
Albany Evening Journal, 34
Alcott, Bronson, 59, 476, 495
Allen, Cyrus M., 582
Allstadt, John H., 480
Alton, Ill., 275, 377, 405, 434
Lincoln-Douglas debate at, 405–13, 414
Alton Courier, 202
Alton Observer, 275
American Anti-Slavery Society, 51, 61, 63, 509
Declaration of Sentiments, 61
American Bible Society, 165
American Jurist, 62
American Party. See Know Nothing Party
American Revolution, 118
American Slavery as It Is (Weld), 92
American South, 4, 23, 153–54
abolitionist materials banned, 114, 506
attack on Sumner and, 145–46, 153–54
black codes and exclusionary laws, 499
boycotts of Northern goods, 499
John Brown’s raid, effect of, 497–99
Buchanan elected by, 261, 262
Calhoun’s vision, 23–24
Jefferson Davis on Kansas’s fate and, 339
demands of, 535–36
Democratic Party stronghold in, 444
Douglas nomination and, 452, 508, 599, 600
Douglas political tour, 1858, 444–45
election of 1860 and, 606–7
Essay on the Inequality of the Human Races and, 283
Frémont kept off ballots, 246
Gag Rule and, 503
Hammond’s “Cotton is king” speech, xxiv, 340, 342
hostility toward Northerners, 499
The Impending Crisis of the South and, 501–3
Kansas-Nebraska Act and, 15–16
Lincoln’s election and, 626
militias in, 499
minority rule and, 561–62
mixed race population of, 85, 113
Panic of 1857 and, 325–26
poor whites in, 502
Reconstruction and, 126
Republican Party kept off ballots, 628
slavery as its “peculiar institution,” 27, 277, 284, 312, 470
social hierarchy, slavery, and, 340–41
“Southern chivalry,” 109, 123, 129, 139, 140, 143, 151, 198
Southern Rightists, 15, 24, 129, 320, 448
“state equality” and, 264
worth of slaves, dollar amount, 259
See also secession; slavery
Amistad case, 160
Anderson, Jeremiah G., xx, 482
Anderson, John Richard, 275
Anderson, Osborne Perry, xx, 471, 479, 481, 482
Andrew, John A., xviii, 90, 175, 494
Anti-Masonic Party, 227–28, 232
antislavery activists, xvi, 15, 31, 34, 41, 53, 61–62, 68, 73, 91, 95, 115, 117, 190–91, 250, 272, 275–76, 367, 423, 427
in Congress, 25, 39, 45, 46, 59, 61, 63, 66, 69, 92, 150, 151, 152, 232, 510
constitutional arguments for, 94, 436
Declaration of Independence and, 79
Democratic Party and, 76, 100–102, 188, 219, 454, 455
“freedom national” principle, 284
Free Soil Party and, 9, 76, 189, 573
German Americans and, 256
Greeley as, 51, 244
in Illinois, 189, 573, 575
Liberty Party and, 35, 38, 79, 189
newspapers of, 95, 130, 275, 277, 310, 328, 493, 505
“popular sovereignty” and, 15, 23
Republican Party and, 23, 131, 175
in Whig Party, 37
See also abolitionists, abolitionism; Giddings, Joshua; Kansas; Sumner, Charles; Underground Railroad
Anti-Slavery Herald, 73
Anti-Slavery Society, 163
Appeal in Favor of that Class of Americans Called Africans, An (Child), 63
Appleton, Nathan, 72–73, 99
Appleton, William, 99
Archer, William B., xvi, 234, 235
Arguments of the Chivalry (Homer), 143
Arnold, Isaac N., 199, 398, 437, 574
Asbury, Henry, 417
Ashmun, George, 587
Astor, John Jacob, 165
Astor House, New York City, 22, 34, 244, 584
Lincoln at, 528, 529, 584
Republican National Committee at, 525, 528
Atchison, David Rice, xii, 96, 98, 104, 123–24, 170, 276
At
lantic Monthly, 117–18
Atticus, Titus Pomponius, 70, 72
Audubon, John James, 241
Bacon, Francis, 183, 194–95
Badger, George, 79
Bailey, Gamaliel, xx, 95, 98, 99, 229, 277, 467
Bainbridge, Henry, 275
Baker, Edward D., xv, 455
Baker, Edward L., xvi, 589, 596
Baker, George E., 148
Baldwin, Eugene F., 202–3
Baltimore Democratic convention, 1860, 558, 602–4
Bancroft, George, 529
Banks, A. D., 451
Banks, Nathaniel, 46, 47, 50, 98, 99, 226, 230, 335, 350, 441, 572, 585
Bank War, 272, 286
Barksdale, William, xvi, 337, 505
Barlow, Samuel L. M., xxii, 213, 214, 492, 546
Bascom, William T., 456, 462
Bassett, Isaac, 137
Bates, Edward, xxi, 275, 596, 622
as Republican presidential hopeful, 433, 523–25, 564–66, 569–70, 572, 578–81, 585, 586, 589, 590–91, 594, 596
Bayard, James A., 213, 214, 546, 558
Beckham, Fontaine, xx, 482
Bedford Springs, Pa., 381, 453
Beecher, Edward, 191
Beecher, Henry Ward, xx, 143, 146, 244, 463, 528, 538
Belknap, Jeremy, 86–87
Bell, John, xiv, 261, 438, 559, 571, 578, 604–5, 607, 608, 611, 616, 618, 624, 625, 628
Belleville (Illinois) Weekly Advocate, 202, 519
Belmont, August, xix, 212, 557, 607
Beloved (Morrison), 112
Beman, Nathan, 553
Ben Hur (Wallace), 398
Benjamin, Judah P., xv, 178, 212–13, 392, 601–2
Bennett, James Gordon, 492, 619
Benton, Thomas Hart, xvi, 96, 124, 144, 229–30, 241–43, 276, 277, 287
Berdan, James, 255, 256
Berea School, Ky., 499
Bigelow, John, xix, 231, 240, 243, 493, 524
Bingham, John A., 121
Bird, Francis W., xviii, 175
Bissell, William H., xvii, 198–99, 251, 262, 425
Black, Jeremiah, xxii, 269, 271, 290, 318, 320, 323–24, 454, 548
Black Hawk War, 191, 518
Black Republicans, 339, 452
antislavery activists as, 47, 98, 125, 153, 155, 220, 271, 377
black equality and, 394
“disunionism” and, 215, 218, 238, 244
Douglas’s rhetoric and, 31, 32, 33, 37, 39–40, 43, 101, 105, 191, 220, 296, 303, 381, 383, 384, 390, 391, 394, 396, 560
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