Contentious Liberties: American Abolitionists in Post-Emancipation Jamaica, 1834-1866

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{ 24 } index aass. See American Anti-Slavery Society Abbott, Thomas, 81, 83, 9 Abolition Act. See Emancipation Act abolitionism and abolitionists, 1, 8–9, 104; evangelical (see evangelical abolitionists ); in Jamaica, 2, 4–5; radical abolitionism, 3, 38, 43, 44–45, 20, 208–9; in the United States, 3, 5–; and women’s rights, 6, , 38–39, 43, 13, 151–52, 165, 12 acs. See American Colonization Society Advocate and Family Guardian, 154, 13 African Americans, 6, 32–33 Allen, George, 188, 201, 205 ama. See American Missionary Association American and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society, 151 American Anti-Slavery Society (aass): formation of, 6; and Lane Seminary, 31, 32; schisms in, 6; and the West Indies, 48, 5, 0; and the woman question, 38, 42 American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, 5, 8, 26; establishment of, 18; focus on spiritual rather than social transformation, 85, 8; and marriage, 136; single women employed by, 156; on slavery, 85–86, 8 American Colonization Society (acs), 5, 30, 32, 33, 85 American Congregationalists, 11 American Missionary, 126, 131, 13; and church discipline, 88–89; on Dean, 163; and the Great Revival, 184, 18, 188; as immediate emancipation advocate, 193; term for American ex-slaves discussed in, 190 American Missionary Association (ama): and abolition, 44, , 85–86; and the Baptist War, 55; and church discipline , 8–88; and Dean’s criticism of Hyde, 10–8, 109; establishment of, , 86–8; Evarts dismissed by, 122–23, 124; fields of mission labor, 8; and funding, 134, 140; and Hunt, 100; and Hyde, 103, 104, 10–8, 109, 115, 122–23, 124, 126; and missionaries ’ antiauthoritarianism, 10–8, 115; missionaries’ letters to, 11; origins of, 84–86; and Richmond, 140, 141; in the U.S. South, 8, 183, 190–91, 208; withdrawal of support for Jamaica Mission, 155, 190, 191–92; and the woman question, 39; and women missionaries, 156; mentioned, 8, 82, 20 Anderson, Rufus, 85, 8 Andrew, John, 22 Anglican Church, 4, 18, 53 antiabolitionism, 6, 33–34 anti-Catholicism, 25, 86 { 248 } index Antigua, 1, 5 antislavery movement. See abolitionism and abolitionists apprenticeship program, 1, 56–58, 60, 62–63 baptism, 53, 6, 94–95, 188 Baptist Church, 23; and adult baptism, 94–95; African American, 19, 51–53, 138; English (see English Baptists); European cultural values of, 52–53; and marriage, 138; Native (see Native Baptist churches); ticket system in, 52, 54–55 Baptist War of 1831–32, 5, 19, 55–56 Barbados, 1, 46, 5 Bateman, Josephine Penfield, 150 Beardslee, Julius: and the ama, 122; and Hyde, 114; and the Morant Bay Rebellion , 198; and the Native Baptists, 188–89, 195, 199; and self-supporting churches,  Beecher, Catherine, 30, 32, 39, 106, 161 Beecher, Edward, 85, 86 Beecher, Henry Ward, 150 Beecher, Lyman: on emancipation, 30, 31; and family order, 35–36; Finney criticized by, 25; and interracial socializing , 33; and Lane Seminary, 30, 33, 34; revivalists’ techniques adopted by, 24–25; mentioned, 85 Bernard, Letitia, 90 Besson, Jean, 58, 64–65 Blackett, Richard,  black Jamaicans: American missionaries viewed by, 2–3, 11–12, 18, 6, 1, 81–83, 111; Christian morality viewed by, 181–82; church membership sought by, 12, 5–, 88–91, 138–39; English missionaries viewed by, 0–1, 81–83; family structure, 65–66; and freedom, 3, 20, 44–45, 48, 56, 6, 6; and the ideology of domesticity, 10, 63, 6–68, 1; sexual behavior of, 0, 1, 93, 113, 132, 13–38; viewed by American missionaries, 2, 3, 8, 18, 6, 69–1, 4, 6–, 93, 95, 9–98, 116, 123–24, 160, 194–95, 202, 20; viewed by Wolcott, 202; viewed in Britain, 204–5; and wage labor, 55–62, 66, 6–68, 1–2, 9–80, 133–34; women (see women, black Jamaican) Blakeley, Sarah. See Moffat, Sarah Blakeley Bogle, Paul, 196–9, 199 Bradley, James, 31 Brereton, Bridget, 64 Brewin, William, Jamaica in 1866, 203 Britain: black Jamaicans viewed in, 204–5; experiment of emancipation, 1, 2, 4, 5, 3, 131–32 Brown, Antoinette, 42, 43, 151 Brown, Vincent, 49 Brumberg, Joan Jacobs, 156 Byrd, Alexander, 4 Calvinism, 23, 24, 26 Campbell, John, 128 Campbell, Urania, 90 Campbellism, 188, 189 Carlyle, Thomas, 2, 61 Carpenter, Ruth E., 142, 143 Catholicism, 25 Cherokee, 8, 85 cholera, 88, 144 Church Missionary Society, 19 Cincinnati, Ohio, 32–33, 33–35 Civil War: end of, 204; and immediate emancipation, 193; and the Jamaica Mission, 155, 183, 190; mentioned, , 8, 4 Clark, John...