Oberlin, Hotbed of Abolitionism: College, Community, and the Fight for Freedom and Equality in Antebellum America

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323 Index Adair, Florella Brown, 195, 226, 297 (n. 91) Adair, Samuel, 176, 195, 226, 297 (n. 91) Adams, Charles Francis, 143 Adams, John Quincy, 95, 143, 262 (n. 90), 280 (n. 28) Africa, 12, 18, 25, 49, 68, 69, 74 African Americans. See individual names Afrikan Heritage House, 247 Akron, Ohio, 47 Alabama, 28, 30 Albany, New York, 101 Alexander, Leslie, 168 Allan, William, 30, 43, 54, 261 (n. 55) Allen, George, 261 (n. 55) Allen, John, 88, 89 Alvord, John, 43, 45, 53, 137, 261 (n. 55) American and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society (AFASS), 114, 152 American Anti-Slavery Society (AASS), 31, 44, 49, 50, 52, 55, 58, 59, 60, 102, 103, 115, 116, 119, 262 (n. 82), 276 (n. 23); agency system, 3, 40, 43, 45, 46, 49, 50, 57, 84, 191; Declaration of Sentiments, 48, 55, 56, 103, 133; Executive Committee , 36, 43, 49, 57, 60; financial difficulties , 59, 60; ideological differences among members, 108, 113, 114, 132; meetings of, 101, 119, 173 American Colonization Society (ACS), 18, 19, 21, 24, 29, 55, 255 (n. 81) American Missionary Association (AMA), 176, 240 American Revolution, 47, 61, 168, 216 Amherst College, 38, 256 (n. 122) Amistad (slave ship), 74 Andrew, John, 236 Anti-Slavery Bugle (Salem), vi, 119, 152, 223 Ashtabula, Ohio, 73, 185 Atwater, Caleb, 87 Auglaize County, Ohio, 158 Avery, Courtland, 261 (n. 55) Bacon, John, 208 Bailey, Gamaliel, 101, 117, 138, 142 Ballantine, William, 244 Ballou, Aiden, 119 Barber, Amzi, 83 Barrows, John Henry, 244 Beecher, Lyman, 14, 15 Berry, Gilson, 190 Bibb, Henry, 116 Bible, 12, 49, 54, 80, 91, 123, 261 (n. 73), 272 (n. 100); opposes slavery, 41, 54, 57, 63, 109, 115, 165, 177 Bigglestone, William, 242 Birney, James Gillespie, 19, 25, 36, 51, 95, 99, 108, 110, 113; as presidential candidate, 103, 104, 105, 106, 138, 140 Birney, William, 116 Black abolitionists. See individual names Black convention movement, 6, 166; meetings of, 146–47, 148–50, 157, 158, 165, 167, 179, 183, 213–14, 282 (n. 94) Black Laws (Ohio), 22, 28, 86–89, 94, 96, 141–57 passim, 183, 185, 291 (n. 74) Blackwell, Antoinette Brown, 74, 76 Blakesley, J. M., 261 (n. 55) Bliss, Philemon, 174, 185 Boston, Massachusetts, 4, 14, 46, 193, 214, 221, 270 (n. 29), 293 (n. 119); abolitionists in, 20, 36, 68, 152, 203 Bowdoin College, 256 (n. 122) Boynton, Lewis, 209, 214, 232 Boynton, Shakespeare, 209, 232 Bradley, James, 25, 27, 67, 88, 196 Brooke, Samuel, 116, 119, 277 (n. 54) Brooks, Martin, 196, 290 (n. 49) 324 index Brown, Antoinette. See Blackwell, Antoinette Brown Brown, Charles Farrar, 67 Brown, Florella. See Adair, Florella Brown Brown, Henry Box, 188 Brown, John, 11, 29, 176, 224, 225, 228, 230; connections to Oberlin, 225, 226, 229, 230, 297 (n. 80), 297 (88–89); and Harpers Ferry raid, 225, 226, 227, 228, 231, 236, 266 (n. 44); in Kansas, 195, 209, 226, 227, 287 (n. 96), 297 (n. 91); trial and execution, 228, 230 Brown, John, Jr., 226, 227, 228 Brown, John M., 149, 157, 165, 285 (n. 18) Brown, Oliver, 185 Brown, Owen, 29, 35, 36, 224 Brown, William Wells, 184, 288 (n. 131) Brown County, Ohio, 84, 135 Buchanan, James, 179, 183, 207, 210, 220 Buffalo, New York, 138, 142–46, 178, 282 (n. 94) Burnell, Levi, 30, 60, 89, 258 (n. 2), 259 (n. 9), 290 (n. 46) Burns, Anthony, 182, 293 (n. 119) Burrell, Jabez, 259 (n. 2), 290 (n. 46) Bushnell, Simeon, 210–22 passim Byington, Legrand, 134 Byrd, John, 176, 177, 195, 196 Calhoun, John Caldwell, 55, 56, 68, 172 Canada, 225, 226, 228, 269 (n. 21), 290 (n. 52); as destination for escaping slaves, 1, 50, 84, 164, 188, 191, 192, 194, 196, 198, 201, 213, 225, 290 (n. 52) Canfield, Herman, 184 Carney, William, 238 Carpenter, James, 221 Carr, Robert Kenneth, 247 Carrier, Charles, 204 Chambers, Augustus, 203, 206–8 Charleston, South Carolina, 237 Chase, Salmon P., 93, 104, 154, 155, 162, 180, 184, 185, 219, 224, 235, 283 (n. 117), 296 (n. 74); in Oberlin, 170 Chatham Street Chapel, 18, 21, 254 (n. 62) Chatham, Canada, 225 Cheek, Aimee Lee, 122 Cheek, William, 122 Child, Lydia Maria, 68 Cincinnati, Ohio, 23, 24, 26, 31, 40, 167, 214, 270 (n. 36); African Americans in, 4, 25, 28, 167, 196, 283 (n. 117) Civil War, 4, 11, 232–38 Clark, Christopher, 62 Clark, George, 133, 145 Clark, Peter, 213 Clarke, Cyrus, 194 Clarke, Lewis, 193, 194, 202, 203...