A Disease in the Public Mind (57 page)

Newton, John,
23

Nicolay, John G.,
288–289

Ninety-day volunteers,
283–284

Norris, Wesley,
236–237

Northwest Ordinance,
51
,
91
,
125

Notes on the State of Virginia
(Jefferson),
35–36

Nullification,
116–117
,
119
,
184

Oberlin College (Ohio),
130–131
,
135

Ohio,
117
,
131
,
293

On the Origin of Species
(Darwin),
192

Oregon territory,
167–168

Otis, Harrison Grey,
87
,
103
,
108–109
,
139

Otis, James,
25–26

Overseers, black,
205–207

Paine, Lewis,
309

Paredes, Mariano,
168

Parker, Theodore,
223
,
225
,
246

Patterson, Robert,
284–285

Peace convention,
259–260

Phillips, Wendell,
139–141
,
244
,
268
,
294
,
297

Pichon, Louis-André,
67
,
74

Pickering, Timothy,
81–83
,
102–103

Pierce, Franklin,
185–186
,
218–220
,
250

Pinckney, Charles Cotesworth,
53

Pinckney, Henry Laurens,
147

Pinckney, William,
92

Plantation economy,
17
,
67–68
,
72
,
115–116
,
125
,
192–194
,
207–209
,
234–237
,
261–262

Polk, James K.,
147–148
,
150
,
165
,
167–170
,
172–173
,
181

Postal laws,
145

Postwar policy, Lincoln's,
308–309

Pottawatomie Creek,
198
,
216
,
223–224
,
243

“Provisional Constitution and Ordinances for the People of the United States” (John Brown),
3–4
,
6

Pryor, Roger,
267

Punch,
296

Puritans,
82
,
196

Quakers,
17–18

     
abolition in the District of Columbia,
148–149

     
emancipation proposal,
62

     
opposition to slavery,
18–22

     
pushing for abolition in Virginia,
123–124

     
Uncle Tom's Cabin,
189

     
Virginia slave revolts,
71

Race war,
128
,
292
,
297

Racial equality,
233

Racism

     
abolitionists' postwar hostility towards the South,
311–312

     
Agassiz's anthropology,
190–192

     
American Colonization Society,
90

     
early history of slavery,
15–16

     
Jefferson's
Notes on the State of Virginia,
36–37

     
justifying slavery,
18

     
Lincoln-Douglas debates,
232–234

     
Wilmot's Proviso,
172

Railroad,
7–11
,
275–276
,
278

Randolph, Jane,
124

Randolph, John,
70–71
,
84
,
89
,
92
,
116

Randolph, Thomas Jefferson,
124–128
,
174–175

Rape, slavery as,
98–99
,
104

Raymond, Henry,
266

Rebel yell,
287

Recession,
115–116

Redpath, James,
239–240
,
244

Religion

     
abolitionists' doctrines,
139–141

     
anti-Lincoln rallies,
252–253

     
Benjamin Franklin's hoax,
62–63

     
black churches,
95–96

     
British abolitionists,
110–111

     
Brown's religion of violence,
225–226

     
concerns over disunion,
53

     
Cotton Mather's moral superiority of New England,
50–51

     
early history of slavery,
16

     
Garrison's political and religious views,
100–103

     
inspiring
Uncle Tom's Cabin,
188–189

     
John Brown,
196–197
,
225–226
,
242–243

     
Lincoln's beliefs,
294–295
,
299–300

     
Millerism,
137–138

     
Quaker opposition to slavery,
17–22

     
religion among slaves,
24

     
temperance movements,
130

     
The Slave Power replacing,
177–178

     
Weld's abolitionist crusade,
130–135

Republican Party,
296

     
Blair's defection to,
269

     
emergence of,
214

     
Lincoln nomination,
249

     
Lincoln's leadership,
231–232

     
Maryland's hostility to,
275

     
national convention,
218

     
Thoreau's speech on Brown,
244

     
Whig Party,
100

Rhode Island,
20–21
,
34–35
,
39–40
,
84
,
86

Richmond Enquirer,
128
,
238
,
257
,
296

Riley, Isaac,
202–204

Roane, William Henry,
123

Robertson, John,
273

Rogers, Nathaniel Peabody,
138

Ross, David,
206–207

Ruffin, Edmund,
243–244
,
267

Rush, Benjamin,
26

Russell, Thomas B.,
224–225

Rutledge, Edward,
32

Rutledge, John,
41–43
,
53

Saffin, John,
18

Saint-Domingue,
67–70
,
72–77
,
95
,
125
,
134–135
,
159
.
See also
Haiti

Sanborn, Franklin,
222–224
,
226
,
245
,
248

Santa Anna, Antonio López de,
162
,
170

Scott, Dred,
230
,
232

Scott, Winfield,
170–171
,
173–174
,
255
,
263–266
,
270–272
,
278–279
,
282–284
,
288–289

Secession,
50

     
anti-Lincoln rallies,
252–253

     
as Democratic platform,
251–252

     
Lincoln's response to,
263–264

     
New England's push for,
87–88
,
118

     
over the Louisiana Purchase,
82

     
Ruffin's fanaticism,
243–244

     
Virginia,
255–258

     
Virginia's threat of,
262
,
271

     
Virginia's vote for,
278–279

     
Whiskey Rebellion,
58

Second Great Awakening,
102

Seddon, James A.,
259

Seditious journalism,
108

Segregation,
210

Seven Years' War,
72

Seward, Frederick,
299–300
,
310–311

Seward, William,
218
,
231–233
,
240
,
249
,
257
,
261
,
263–264
,
266
,
288–289
,
293–294
,
299–301

Sexual abuse,
135

Shays, Daniel,
51

Sherman, William Tecumseh,
287
,
302
,
311

Shiloh, Battle of,
291

Skilled slaves,
206–207

Slave army,
39–41
,
128
,
268
,
297–298

Slave patrols,
157–160

The Slave Power,
3
,
162–163
,
167
,
169
,
185–186
,
197
,
211
,
217–218

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