The Prince of Jockeys: The Life of Isaac Burns Murphy

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abolitionists/abolitionism: black abolitionists’ visions for “colored people” following the Emancipation Proclamation, 82–83; in the Civil War era, 65–66; colonization movement, 5, 37–38; in the early 1800s, 4, 36–37; impact of fugitive slave narratives on, 6; response to the expulsion of black women and children from Camp Nelson, 97 “abroad” marriages, 61–62 abstinence, 229 Adam (slave), 29 Adams, Henry, 127, 189 Adams, John, 25 Adams, Samuel, 2 Adams, Susie, 189 African American children: conditions at Camp Nelson, 94–97, 442n47; education and (see black education); expulsion from Camp Nelson, 97–101. See also slaves/slavery: children African American fraternal organizations, 275. See also Freemasonry African American identity: development and social conditioning in slave children, 63–64; race-based orientation of American identity and, 3–4, 26–27 African American men: acting in colonial defenses against Native Americans, 28–29; in the development of the horse racing industry, 7, 41–42, 120, 174, 190–91; evidence of capacity for citizenship, 18; exclusion from professional baseball, 280; “impressment” during the Civil War, 84, 87, 440n28; as laborers in the horse industry, 174; in Lord Dunmore’s War, 24; military service and (see black soldiers); Murphy and black masculinity, 11, 121, 236–37, 268, 374–75, 413– 14; personal transformations at Camp Nelson, 87–88; racial hostility against in the 1880s, 316; role in westward exploration and expansion, 17– 20; sexual relationships with white women, 52–53 African Americans: the Chester Arthur presidency and, 256; competition and tension with immigrants, 212, 246, 257, 262; demonization of, 196–97; in the development of the Index Index 478 African Americans (cont.) horse racing industry, 7, 41– 42, 120, 174, 190–91; early defense of their natural rights, 16; exodus from Kentucky in the 1880s, 256–57; “fictive” kinship names, 454n58; First Continental Congress and, 24–25; formalization of segregation and, 376–79, 414; hopes regarding the outcome of the Civil War, 76–77; implications of the Civil Rights Act of 1875 being declared unconstitutional, 270–73; “jumped a broom” marriage custom, 62, 437n30; opposition and resistance to slavery, 5–6, 72–74; participation in the American discourse on freedom, equality, and citizenship, 16–17; population in Kentucky, 34, 36, 39; the race-based orientation of American identity and, 3–4, 26–27; race relations in the 1870s, 114–16, 152–53, 205–6; race relations in the 1880s, 238, 246–48, 286–88, 316; race relations in the 1890s, 329–31, 364, 375; sensibilities toward sex and marriage, 260; suffrage and, 136, 448n66; Thirteenth Amendment and, 113–14; violence against, 7, 47, 114–16, 133–36, 165–68, 217–18. See also freedmen; slaves/slavery African American women: black women’s power, 451n14; conditions at Camp Nelson, 94–97, 442n47; expulsion from Camp Nelson, 97–101; infanticide and, 56–57; issues of concern in the 1870s, 156– 57; Lucy Murphy and black womanhood, 264–65, 412; Order of the Eastern Stars and, 334–35; as “outsiders within,” 164–65; power in the black community and, 451–52n15, 451n14; property ownership and, 163–64; prostitution and, 122; roles in the black community, 262–63; sexual relationships with white men, 52, 54–55; white retaliation against the wives of black soldiers during the Civil War, 90–91 African Baptist Church, 125. See also First African Baptist Church African Cemetery Number Two, 404, 417, 425 Afro-American League of New York, 352 “Aintree Calls” (Ogilvie), 182 Alexander, Robert Atchison, 41– 42, 151–52 Allen, Alonzo, 340 Allen, Dudley, 370, 371 Allen, F. D., 269 American Anti-Slavery Society, 37 American colonies: African American men acting in defense against Native American attacks, 28–29; African American men in westward exploration and expansion, 19–20; African American participation in the discourse on freedom, equality, and Index 479 citizenship, 16–17; black soldiers, 21, 26; Continental Congresses, 24–25; discussions of slavery, 25; impact of westward expansion on Native Americans, 21–22; origins and consequences of the French and Indian War, 20–21; westward expansion and the extension of slavery, 15–16; westward expansion into Kentucky County, 22–24 American Colonization Society, 5, 37 American Derby: 1884 running, 284; 1885 running, 289– 91; 1886 running, 302; 1887 running, 309–10; 1888 running, 318, 319–20; 1889 running, 325; 1893 running, 387–90 American identity: race-based orientation of, 3–4, 26–27; westward expansion and notions of a divine right, 15–16 American Missionary...