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Page numbers in italics refer to illustrations. Abercrombie, John, ,  African Americans: as spirits, –, –, –, , –, , –, –; as Spiritualists, –, – Antisectarianism, –,  Aryans, , , – Badeley, J. C.,  Baker, Rachel, – Beattie, John,  Belden, Lemuel, – Bell, John, , –,  Bertus, Paul, ,  Bickford, Maria, ,  n.  Blackfoot (spirit), – Black Hawk (spirit), ,  n.  Bliss, James A., – Brackett, Loraina, – Brigham, Josiah, – Brittan, S. B., ,  Buguet, Edouard Isidore, , ,  Bush, George,  Cailloux, André, , –,  Caldwell, Charles,  Cass, Abigail, –,  Catholicism, –, –  • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Caucasians, – Charity, – Child, Lydia Maria, , ,  Chinese, ,  Civil War, –, –, ,  Clairvoyance, ,  Clark, Uriah, , –, ,  Clarke, James Freeman, , , –,  Clay, Henry (spirit), – Colburn, Nettie,  Combe, George, – Comstock, Joseph, ,  Comstock, Mary,  Conant, Fannie,  Correspondence, – Creoles, , –, – Cridge, Annie Denton, – Crowell, Eugene, , , , –, , , –,  n.  Cunningham, Kirk, –,  Darwinism, – Davis, Andrew Jackson, –, , , , –, , , , , , , , , , – Denton, William, , –, –,  Dods, John Bovee, –,  Double consciousness, – Dow, Moses, ,   •  Edmonds, John Worth,  Emotion, –; see also Enthusiasm; Sympathy Emotional topography, – Enthusiasm, –, – Evolution, – Ferguson, Jesse B., –, –, , , – Fox sisters, –,  n.  Franklin, Benjamin (Spirit), , , , – Free love,  n.  Furness, H. H., ,  Gardner, H. F., , –,  n.  Good, John Mason, – Grimké, Sarah, , – Hammond, Charles, , , , –, –, , – Hardinge, Emma, , –, , ,  n.  Hare, Robert, , –, , – Harmonial philosophy, –, – Harris, Thomas Lake, – Heaven and hell, , –, – Holcombe, William Henry, – Horn, S. G.,  Hume, David,  Impartial spectator, –,  Indian heaven, –, – Indians: as spirit physicians, –; as spirits, –, –,  n.  Kames, Henry Home, Lord,  Keeler, W. M.,  Lamarckism, ,  Louisiana Native Guards, , , –,  Mais, Charles, , ,  Mansfield, James V., , , –, ,  Mesmerism, , , –, –,  n.  Minstrelsy, – Mitchill, Samuel Latham, , – Monogenism, – Moral philosophy, –,  n. ; see also Abercrombie, John; Hume, David; Smith, Adam Müller, Friedrich Max,  Mumler, William, –, , , –, , ,  National Developing Circle, –,  Newhall, Wendell, – New Orleans: riot of , –, ; and Spiritualism, , –,  n. ,  n.  Newton, A. E., – Padovano, Cyrillo,  Paine, Thomas (Spirit), ,  Park, John Rancicar,  Park, S. E.,  Peebles, James M., , , , , , –, , , , –,  Photography, –; see also Spirit photography Phrenology, –, – Pierce, Abraham, , ,  Polygenism, , – Post, Isaac, , , ,  Preaux, R., – Prescott, Abraham, – Prichard, James Cowles,  Progress, – [18.191.5.239] Project MUSE (2024-04-26 17:15 GMT)  •  Puch, M.,  Putnam, Allen, , , , , ,  Race relations, –, –, –, –, –, in the afterlife, , –; linguistics and, –,  Randolph, Paschal Beverly, – Reconstruction, – Red Jacket (Spirit), ,  Redman, G. A., , ,  Reichenbach, Baron von,  Rey, Henri Louis, – Rey, Octave, , ,  Reynolds, Mary, – Richmond, Thomas, , – Rider, Jane C., – Robertson, Felix, – Root, Marcus Aurelius,  Rush, Benjamin,  Sargeant, Epes, –, , – Savagery, –, – Sears, Rowland,  Second Great Awakening, – Selfhood, – Sewall, Abby, –, – Seybert Commission,  Shelhamer, Mary Teresa, –, – Shindler, Mary Dana,  Slavery, , –, –, ,  Slaves, ,  Smith, Adam, , , –, , , –, , ,  Smith, Francis H., , , –, , – Snow, Herman,  Social physiology, ,  Somnambulism: and jurisprudence, –; natural somnambulism, –, –; religious somnambulism, –; see also Mesmerism Sound, Sylvester,  Spear, John Murray,  n.  Spirit healing, – Spirit mediumship, –; see also names of individual mediums Spirit photography, – Spiritualism: and Christianity, –, –, ,  n. ,  n. ; conversion to, –; origins, –; and instrumentalism , –; and politics, ; and reform, –; and sympathy, –, –; and telegraphy, –; see also Harmonial philosophy Stebbins, Giles B., , ,  Stuart, Mrs. H. F., , , ,  Swedenborg, Emanuel, –,  Sympathy: and language, –; limits of, –, –; occult —, ; physiological —, –; and religious revivals , –; and race, –, –, –, –; social —, –; and spirit photography, –; and spiritual healing, –, –; sympathetic cosmology, –, –, –, –, – Terry, Samuel,  Tirrell, Albert John, –,  n.  Tooker, Joseph, ,  Truth, Sojourner,  Turanians, , , – Tuttle, Hudson, , , –, ,  Twing, Carrie,  Vaughan, John (of Wilmington), , – Wallace, Alfred Russel,  Washington, George (Spirit), , –, ,  Watson, Samuel,   •  White, Nathan Francis,  Whiteness, – Whytt, Robert, , – Wigan, Arthur,  Wolfe, Napoleon B.,  Wood, Horatio, –,  Young, William,  ...

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