To Live an Antislavery Life: Personal Politics and the Antebellum Black Middle Class

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abolition of slavery, in the North, 10, 66 Address to All the Colored Citizens of the United States (Meachum), 11–12, 33, 44, 101–5 advice literature. See conduct discourse; domestic discourse “Afric-American Picture Gallery” (Wilson), 124–27 African diaspora, 4, 114–17, 129–31 alcohol consumption, anxieties about, 49–50 Aldridge, Ira, 57, 125 Allen, Richard, 107, 125 American Colonization Society, 45, 89, 119 American Moral Reform Society, 5–6, 51–52 American Revolution, as incomplete, 112–17 Amistad (ship). See Joseph Cinque Anderson, Osborne P., 123–24 Anglo-African Magazine, 4, 109–12, 124–25, 129–31 aspiring classes, of free blacks, 1, 7–9; antislavery consciousness, 22–24; economic insecurity, 15–16 Attucks, Crispus, 112, 125 Autobiography of a Fugitive Negro (Ward), 37–40 Ball, Charles, 69–70 Bibb, Henry, 3, 56–57, 59; on enslaved fathers, 66; on free black marriages, 88; on remembering slavery, 67–68; on slave marriages, 71, 76–77 black conventions, national, 5–6, 52; convention of 1831, on respectability, 21; convention of 1831, on urban conditions, 44; convention of 1833, on temperance, 104; convention of 1843, on Garnet’s “Address to the Slaves,” 64, 114; convention of 1848, on the French Revolution, 118; convention of 1848, on male independence, 46; convention of 1848, on occupations, 42–43; convention of 1853, 125; convention of 1869, 125 black conventions, state: New York State Convention of 1840, on respectability, 54; New York State Convention of 1845, on the American Revolution, 113; Ohio State Convention of 1851, on revolutionaries, 120; Ohio State Convention of 1852, on respectability, 34; Ohio State Convention of 1856, on revolutionaries, 123 blackface minstrelsy, 24–25 black nationalism, 6. See also emigration Blake, or the Huts of America (Delany), 127–29, 131 Blyden, Edward Wilmot, 109 “bobalition” broadsides, 24 Brown, William Wells, 38, 59, 127, 134; on remembering slavery, 67; on INDEX [172] index Brown, William Wells (continued) self-made men, 56–57; on slave marriages, 70–71; on Virginius, 122 Cary, Mary Ann Shadd, 6, 20, 101, 109 Child, Lydia Maria, 90 Christianity: divine retribution, 114–15; racial responsibility, 21–22; and the Second Great Awakening, 31; and self-help, 32–33; and sinfulness of slavery, 71–72 Christian Recorder, The, 99; on the Civil War, 132–33 Cinque, Joseph, 4, 113–14, 116 Civil War, 131–35 Clay, Edward, 24–26, 29, 96–97 Colored Patriots of the American Revolution (Nell), 54, 112 conduct discourse, 2–3, 7, 12–13, 14–15, 35–36; in newspapers 13–14, 19–21. See also black conventions; slave narratives Cornish, Samuel E., 27 Craft, William and Ellen: on abuse of enslaved women, 76; on motherhood, 70 Crandall, Prudence, 25–27, 58 Creole (ship). See Madison Washington Crummell, Alexander, 134 Day, William Howard, 120 Delany, Martin, 2, 30, 109, 133–34; Blake, or the Huts of America, 127–29, 131; on effects of slavery, 78; on emigration, 46; on enslaved families, 64; on home as an antislavery space, 92–93; on ideal wives, 91; on occupations, 43; on the political significance of the family, 105; on self-made men, 56; on slave suicides, 121–22 Dessalines, Jean-Jacques, 4. See also revolutionaries domestic discourse, 3–4; on childrearing, 100–106; on courtship 85–87; for wives, 89–93. See also marriage Douglas, Hezekiah Ford, 120, 133 Douglass, Frederick, 2–3, 16, 38, 92, 127, 134; on education, 58; on enslaved children, 65; “The Heroic Slave,” 114; on independence, 78, 88; on the North Star, 20; on prejudice, 27; on self-made men, 55–56, 59–61; “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?,” 113 Douglass, Sarah Mapps, 3, 23, 28, 109; on education, 58; on home and family, 106–8 Downing, George, 119 Dred Scott v. Sanford, 16, 111 Durham, Jeremiah, 72, 92 Easton, Hosea, 27; on effects of slavery, 73–74; on prejudice, 18–19 education, attitudes toward, 57–58, 90–91 “Ellen.” See female influence emigration, 6, 45–46, 111, 129–30 “Ethiop.” See William J. Wilson family, political significance of, 75–76, 81–85, 92–93, 106–8. See also marriage female influence, 93, 95; and activism, 99–100; democratization of, 94–98 Finney, Charles Grandison, 31 Forten, Charlotte (Mrs. Francis J. Grimké), 10, 23, 38, 134 Forten, James, 23, 101, 125; Letters from a Man of Colour, 112–13; on prejudice, 28 Forten, Robert, 133 free blacks, northern: 10–11; working index [173] class...