In the Shadow of the Gallows: Race, Crime, and American Civic Identity

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Index Note: Page numbers in italics indicate illustrations. abolition laws, 71; of Delaware, 352n114; of New Jersey, 127; of New York, 71, 332n57, 359n36; of Pennsylvania, 66, 125, 126 abolition societies, 123–27, 132–34, 134, 183– 88; of Delaware, 123–24, 348n18; of New York, 132, 351n64; of Pennsylvania, 125–26, 132, 351n64 actus reus. See mens rea/actus reus Adams, John, 65–66 Adams, John Quincy, 229 African Free School, 132, 351n64 “Africanist presence,” 34, 198 African Squadron, 252, 262, 270–72, 373n94 Agamben, Giorgio, 55–57; on homo sacer, 56–61, 79–80 Alabama Beacon (newspaper), 187, 189, 190 Albert, Job, 128 Algerine Spy in Pennsylvania, 2 alienage, 52 Allen, Howard W., 320n117 Allen, Richard, 12, 13, 125, 126, 142; gallows pamphlet of, 143; on yellow fever epidemic , 76, 136–42, 162 Allen, Thomas M., 180–82 Althusser, Louis, 35–36, 325nn181, 182 American Anti-Slavery Society (AASS), 6; Confessions of Nat Turner and, 183; Narrative of James Williams and, 165, 185–88, 192–94 American Colonization Society, 373n94. See also colonization schemes American Indians, 255; captivity narratives about, 19, 35; Constitution’s “three-fifths” clause and, 316n48; gallows literature of, 320n111, 322n127; genocide of, 152–53 American Statistical Association, 228–29 American Universal Magazine, 125, 129 Amistad slave revolt, 53, 262, 375n141 Anderson, Alexander, 25, 26, 295–303, 296 Anderson, John , 6 Andrews, William L., 11, 14, 327n208 Andrus, Daniel, 367n149 Antelope case, 258–59, 304, 305, 311, 373n106 Anti-Slavery Standard (periodical), 215 apostrophe (rhetorical trope), 36–37, 325n182 Aristotle, 56, 175; on democracy, 51; on slavery , 13–14, 64, 65, 318n82 Arnold, Edward, 234–35 Arthur (slave), 92–101, 256 Attucks, Crispus, 65, 81 Auburn State Prison, 42; memoir of, 343n79; as model for houses of refuge, 240; regimen at, 212, 214–16, 218, 231–32, 236; Sampson’s Rationale of Crime and, 238–39. See also prisons Auld, Thomas, 43 Austin, John, 220, 236–37 Austin, Stephen S., 233 authorship, 11–14, 33–38; authenticity and, 34, 346n8, 348n24; confession and, 15, 30–31; ideology and, 36; literary presence and, 34; public performance of, 165, 169 Barlett, Josiah, 81–82 Barrett, Lindon, 199–200 Barton, Benjamin, 350n51 Beaumont, Gustave de, 212 Beccaria, Cesare, 125 Benezet, Anthony, 137 Berkowitz, David, 378n13 Best, Stephen M., 120, 146, 154, 328n2 Betts, Samuel Rossiter, 111–13 “Bible politics,” 14 biopolitics, 12, 104, 337n160. See also Foucault , Michel 434 Index Birney, James Gillespie, 183, 185, 188 Black Atlantic personal narratives, 11–15, 100, 122, 317n73 black persona, 4, 40-41, 209–11; in abolitionist rhetoric, 222; injustice of legal system and, 5; in print, 38, 259, 297; Puritanism and, 11, 17 Blackstone, William, 60, 69, 77 Blackwell’s Island Penitentiary, 217, 238, 241 blues music, 28, 39, 302 Blum, Hester, 257, 260, 379n29 Blumenthal, Susanna L., 40, 257, 258 Bonner, Robert, 170 Bosco, Ronald A., 320n117 Boston Massacre (1770), 65–66 Bouvier, John, 6–9, 60, 332n57 Brady, Mathew, 217, 238–43, 242 Bras-Coupé (slave), 81, 344n91 Breen, T. H., 340n22 Brewer, Holly, 77, 80 Bridge, Horatio, 271 Brooke, Henry K., 278–79, 282 Brooks, Joanna, 317n73 Brooks, John L., 29 Brooks, Peter, 319n92 “Brothers, The” (Southworth), 87–93, 170, 339n1, 355n27 Brown, Charles Brockden, 53, 183 Brown, Henry Box, 5, 29 Brown, John, vii, 338n174 Brown, Thomas, 35 Brown, Vincent, 60 Brown, William Wells, 5, 38, 39, 187, 257 Bruce, Dickson, 34 Buchanan, Thomas H., 271 Burns, Anthony, 254, 272 Burr, Aaron, 303 Burroughs, Stephen, 120 Byron, Lord, 279 Calhoun, John C., 229 Canney, Donald L., 283 Canot, Theodore, 262–64, 271–72, 277, 370n40 Canuel, Mark, 185, 186 capital punishment: of children, 244–45; of women, 318n87, 320n117; debate over, 214–16, 218, 220–21; insanity defense and, 238; Montesquieu on, 78; for slave trafficking , 253; Wordsworth on, 214–15. See also execution rituals captivity narratives, 19, 35 Carbado, Devon W., 57 Carey, Henry C., 262 Carey, Matthew, 126, 137–41 Carr, Patrick, 66 Carretta, Vincent, 12 Carson, Ann, 66 Carter, Joseph, 115 Cartwright, Samuel A., 41–42, 167, 169, 202– 5, 220, 226; on legal responsibility, 256; on segregation, 239 Cary, Lorene, 369n12 Cassuto, Leonard, 326n206 Castiglia, Christopher, 193 Castronovo, Russ, 257 Census of 1840, 42, 116–19, 226–31 Chandler, Peleg W., 238, 365n116 Cheever, George B., 215 Cherokee Nation v. the State of Georgia, 255 Chesnutt, Charles, 184 Child, Lydia Maria, 58, 215 Chilton, J. R., 204, 206 Chopin, Kate, 183 Christopher, Emma, 284 citizenship, 40, 51–55, 133, 314n12; “civility” and...