Cecelia and Fanny: The Remarkable Friendship Between an Escaped Slave and Her Former Mistress

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Index Abbott, Wilson Ruffin, 81 abolitionism, 8, 9, 12, 123–24 Adam (slave), 161, 167 as Cecelia’s “father,” 43–44 as laborer, 45, 52 sale of, 52–53 African Americans in Louisville, 150–52, 165, 168–70, 173 and migration to cities, 166–67 and military service in the Civil War, 131–35, 138 Alice (slave), 89, 93 American Party, 59 Amherstburg, Ontario, 77 Arterburn Brothers, 31 Ballard, Abigail Churchill, 72, 101, 155–58 Ballard, Andrew Jackson, 61, 118 assets of, 63, 74, 121, 158–59 courtship of Fanny, 64–70 death of, 159–60 and death of Abigail Ballard, 158–59 early life of, 62–63 and emancipation, 142 occupation of, 72–73, 147, 149–50, 152–55 political views of, 103–6, 112–13, 119, 152–53 and Reconstruction policy, 148–49 romanticism of, 64, 73 and slave management, 71–72 slaves owned by, 92, 104, 112, 142–43 as U.S. district court clerk, 107, 114, 144, 148–49 Ballard, Bland (Fanny’s son), 72 Ballard, Bland (federal judge), 107, 150 223 Ballard, Bland W., 62 Ballard, Charles Thruston, 72, 101, 143, 155, 159, 160 Ballard, Frances (Fanny), 57, 167, 188 attitude toward slavery, 40, 89–92, 95–96 death of, 161–62 and death of Abigail Ballard, 156–57 and end of slavery, 143 grave of, 186 letters to Cecelia of, 87–89, 92–96, 161 marriage to Andrew J. Ballard, 67 at Niagara Falls, 1, 6, 8 as Queen of May, 58 reaction to Cecelia’s escape, 18 relationship with Cecelia, 52–55, 160–61 religious views of, 61–62, 90–91 as slave owner, 18–20, 53–54 as wife and mother, 71–72 Ballard, James, 62–63 Ballard, Samuel Thruston, 72, 101, 156, 160 Ballard Massacre (1788), 62 Barham, John, 5–6 Beauregard, P. G. T., 108 “begging,” 85 Bell, John, 105 Berlin, Ira, 76 Bibb, Henry, 50, 84–85, 97 Birney, James G., 77 Blackburn, Thornton, 81 “Bloody Monday,” 59 Bob (slave), 71–72 Breckenridge, John, 105 Buckner, Mary, 34 Buell, Don Carlos, 108–9 Index 224 Burbridge, Stephen, 117–18 “Burned-over District,” 8, 124 Canada African American emigration from, 122 fugitive slaves in, 76–77, 99 job opportunities for blacks in, 78–79 and Panic of 1857, 96 perception of, among blacks, 77–78 Canada West, 99 black population of, 76 Castile Water Cure, 155–56 Cave Hill Cemetery, 186 Cecelia (slave). See Larrison, Cecelia Chicago, Ill., 92, 93 Christ Church Episcopal (Louisville), 61, 90, 112, 157 Churchill, Samuel B., 114–16 Civil Rights Act of 1866, 147–48 Civil War and African American enlistment, 111–12, 119, 133–38 attitude toward, in Louisville, 109, 111–14, 116, 118–19 attitude toward, in Rochester, 135–36 and conscription, 136 in Kentucky, 96, 103, 105, 107–9, 113, 117–18 in Missouri, 114–15 and the pension system, 180–81 Clark, Frances Ann, 35–37 Clark, George Rogers, 35 Clark, Thomas, 185 Clay, Henry, 103–4 Coit, John, 127, 129 Commonwealth v. Aves, 8 compensated emancipation, 96 confiscation acts, 135 Constitutional Union Party, 105 Cotton, William, 41–42 courtship practices, 60, 68–70 Craik, James, 90–91, 102–3 Davis, Jefferson, 110 Dependent Pension Act of 1890, 180 Dickens, Charles, 5 Douglas, Stephen, 105 Douglass, Frederick, 16, 82, 122–23, 125– 26, 133 Drew, Benjamin, 77–78 dysentery, 159–60 Edward (Cecelia’s brother), 44, 87–89, 158 Emancipation Proclamation, 111, 135 Erie Canal, 3, 124 Fifty-fourth Massachusetts, 134–35 Finney, Charles Grandison, 124 Foote, Charles C., 82 Fourteenth New York Heavy Artillery, 131, 137–39, 141, 178 Freedmen’s Bureau, 165–66 Fugitive Slave Law of 1850, 76, 87 fugitive slaves. See slaves: escaped Galt House, 109–10 gender roles, 70–73, 81–82, 162 Gerber, David, 98 Greene, Cordelia, 155–56 Guthrie, James, 115–16 Harlan, John Marshall, 152–54 Hawes, Henry, 30, 52–53 Hawkins, Horace, 97 hemp, 23 Hill, Mollie, 155–56 “hiring out,” 47, 89 Holley, Myron, 123–24 Holmes, Benjamin Alexander, 79, 81, 122, 140–41 Holmes, Benjamin Pollard, 79, 81, 86, 92, 94–95, 99–100 Holmes, Cecelia. See Larrison, Cecelia Holmes, James Thomas, 79, 81, 122, 140 Holmes, Mamie. See Reels, Mamie Horton, James Oliver, 86 Howard, William, 77–78 interstate slave trade, 31, 41–42 Jack (slave), 26, 143 Jenkins, Elijah, 78 Jesup, Ann Croghan, 2–3 Jesup, Thomas Sidney, 2 John (slave), 26 Johnson, Paul, 124 Jones, Andrew (slave), 26–28 Jones, Baldwin (slave), 29 [3.143...