Reforging the White Republic: Race, Religion, and American Nationalism, 1865–1898

Index

Abbott, Lyman, 46 abolitionists, 1, 5, 41, 113, 121, 125, 129, 175, 182, 241 Acklen, Joseph, 166 Acts of the Apostles, 45, 58–59 Adam: as white, 43 Adams, M. Pardee, 227 Adams, Samuel, 4 Advice to Freedmen (Brinckerhoff), 56 Africa, 202, 210, 212, 220, 225 African Americans: advice literature for, 56–57; in Civil War, 5, 42, 46–48, 51, 57, 68–69, 75, 109; class issues within, 54, 82, 84; depictions of, 5, 11–12, 15, 43, 61–78, 92, 96–97, 100–104, 116, 168–69, 174, 195–96, 199– 202, 236–37; education of, 4, 46, 51–86, 99– 100, 102–3, 109, 175–77, 180, 206, 214, 217, 247; and holidays, 48–49, 74–75, 150; and imperialism, 213–14, 240–43; medical neglect of, 148, 170–71; on northern Protestants, 22–23, 70, 75–76, 84–86, 119, 124, 142–44; religious beliefs of, 62, 65–67, 248–49; responses to Abraham Lincoln’s assassination, 21, 51; responses to Dwight Lyman Moody, 119, 124, 141–44, 204; on sectional reconciliation , 17–19, 30, 86, 90, 95–96, 108–11, 117– 19, 142–43, 150, 171, 206–7, 241–42, 247– 49; on segregation, 3, 18, 142–44, 203–8, 244, 247–49; and sexuality with whites, 73– 75, 106; status of, 1–4, 32, 38–50, 53, 55, 59, 88, 90, 92, 110, 116, 126, 150, 173, 232, 244– 45, 264n20; violence against, 2–3, 17–18, 76, 79–82, 88, 102, 108–9, 125–26, 132, 135–36, 143, 179, 199, 204–7, 211, 218, 246, 249; and Woman’s Christian Temperance Union, 178– 79, 203–8; and yellow fever, 148, 167–72 African Methodist Episcopal Church, 21, 48, 51, 55, 63, 76–77, 108, 142–43, 150, 248 African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church, 51 Agassiz, Louis, 43 Agnew, Samuel, 153 Ahlstrom, Sidney, 9, 126, 215 Alabama Baptist, 198 Alcott, S. M., 112–13 Allen, Horace N., 221 Alvord, John W., 56, 58–59, 65, 79 Ament, W. S., 229 American Baptist Home Mission Society, 55, 106–7 American Bible Society, 105 American Board of Foreign Missions, 229 American Freedmen’s Union Commission, 52, 55, 106 American Historical Association, 10–11 American Missionary, 81, 169, 203, 218 American Missionary Association, 51, 55, 56, 59, 73, 75, 84–85, 107–8, 169 American Protective Association, 199 American Tract Society, 56, 57 Amherst College, 215 Amonson, Louis, 234 Anderson, Benedict, 15 Anderson, D. W., 48 Andover Theological Seminary, 25–26 Andrew, John, 41, 46 Andrews, Sidney, 29, 170 angels: images of, 1, 28, 115, 209 antebellum era, 4, 7, 43, 49, 90, 101, 104, 138, 182 Anthony, Susan B., 178 anti-imperialism, 213–14, 229–30, 237–43 Anti-Imperialist League, 241 Index Argonaut, 223 Argyll, Duchess of, 99 “Ariel,” 93 Arnold, Benedict: images of, 95 Asia, 210, 212, 220, 225 “Athena Hygeia,” 173 Atkins, Gaius Glenn, 128, 216 Atlanta Constitution, 106, 140 Atlanta University, 82, 107 Atlantic Monthly, 75, 97, 98, 100 Augusta Constitutionalist, 140 Australia, 210 Bailey, Hannah, 239 Bain, George, 198 Bancroft, George, 127 Banneker, Benjamin, 57 Baptist Courier, 228 Baptists, 13, 26, 34, 40, 51, 55, 78–79, 105–7, 129, 131, 140, 165–66, 228 “Battle Hymn of the Republic” (Howe), 19, 134 Battles and Leaders of the Civil War, 130 Bederman, Gail, 204 Beecher, Edward, 94–95, 99 Beecher, Henry Ward, 13–14, 30, 37–38, 43, 87– 88, 91–100, 103–4, 108, 111, 116, 123–24, 127, 129, 135–37, 146–47, 171, 247 Beecher, Lyman, 91 Been in the Storm So Long (Litwack), 75 Bellamy, Edward, 17, 244–46 “beloved community,” 86 Benade, W. H., 41 Bengal, 210 Berle, A. A., 229 Berlin Africa Conference of 1884, 220 Beveridge, Albert, 16, 213, 230, 233, 237–38 Bible View of Slavery (Hopkins), 35 Bird, Arthur, 17, 244–46 Birth of a Nation (Griffith), 2, 236 Bishop, Richard, 158 “black codes,” 32, 63 black liberation theology, 67 Black Reconstruction in America (Du Bois), 19 Blair, Henry, 198 Bledsoe, Albert Taylor, 130–31 Blight, David, 8 “Blue and the Gray, The,” (Finch), 112, 189–90 Boardman, George Dana, 40 Boardman, Henry, 33 Booth, John Wilkes, 21, 31, 246 Bordin, Ruth, 177 Boston Daily Globe, 128 Boston Earthquake, 107 Boston Evening Transcript, 128 Boston Herald, 229 Boston Sunday Times, 132, 134–35 Botome, Elizabeth, 54, 67, 75 Boxer Rebellion, 225–26, 229 Brazil, 217, 225 Brewer, David J., 10 Brinckerhoff, Isaac, 56 Britain, 10, 123–24, 143, 204, 206...