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307 Index • A AAS. See American Anti-Slavery Society abolition: agitation during, 268 (n. 32); antebellum, 2; antinomianism, 192, 194, 195; attacks on, 48–50, 53; biblical passages used for, 81; Breckenridge threatened, 52–53; creates chaos, 178, 214; creates crime, 153, 154–155; death penalty and, 127, 130, 172; death penalty does not deter crime, 28, 59, 64–65, 106; depravity of, 100, 156; Franklin and, 192, 268 (n. 32); free blacks and, 121; gothic, 116; of hanging, 41, 218–219; magazines, 82; Massachusetts, 197; newspapers, 52, 167; petitions, legislative , 197; presses, 119; publishers, 18; Quakers and, 81; radical, 117–118; slavery and, 59, 127; songs, 124, 155, 262 (n. 72); threats to, 52; Upham and, 82, 84; violates dignity, 154; white, 52, 121 ABR. See American Bloody Register ABS (American Bible Society), 142, 143, 269 (n. 39) Abzug, Robert, 7 ACS (American Colonization Society), 49–50 “actor training,” 120, 141; defined, 48 ad hominem, 159, 170, 174 Adams, John, 22, 272 (n. 63) Adams, John Quincy: abolitionist, slavery , 5; career of, 13, 14, 22; disliked Jackson, 14; divine patriotism and, 308 Index 28; Fourth of July oration by, 233 (n. 13); Harvard College and, 14; on laws of man and heaven, 13, 94; as orator, 5, 13; presidency of, 5, 14; prosperity and Constitution, 13; revered, 22; rhetoric of, religious, 13–15, 16; as rhetoric professor, 14; utopia and, 14; Washington praised by, 14; Whigs and, 14 Adams, Samuel, 29, 101, 108–110, 110–111, 112. See also Colt Adorno, Theodor, 213–214 “The Address of the People called Quakers, to the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States,” 275 (n. 75) The Adventures of Caleb Williams (Godwin ), 239 (n. 37) African American(s): as abolitionists, 121; Broadway Tabernacle open to, 132; character trope of in oratory, 261 (n. 78); church pew seating and, 133; churches, 53; as “colored” worshipers , 10; modernity stereotypes of, 139; Philadelphia riots and, 182–186; societies organized by, 4, 184. See also free blacks; slaves agent of the law, 63, 65, 66 Albany, New York, 116, 129; Cheever’s debate, 144, 148, 151, 153, 163; newspapers, 135; O’Sullivan’s debate, 69, 70, 86, 127–128, 130, 153, 164 The Albion, 211 alcohol, 21, 39, 119, 123, 200; Bible and, 89; production, 88–89, 89, 191; as social control, 24; violence, sin and, 27, 79, 87 alias, 29 allegiance, 12, 15, 22, 51, 147, 221 allegory, 53, 84, 151, 167, 206; Cheever and, 190–191, 192; literal, 192; Melville ’s, 211 Allen Street Presbyterian Church, 89, 129, 142 America, antebellum: Bacon on, 2, 4; modernity of, 25; morals of, 6; political battles in, 3; political culture of, 24; population, 26; rhetorical culture of, 3–4; violence in, 6, 26 The American Anti-slavery Almanac for 1840, 56, 57 American Anti-Slavery Society (AAS), 58; Child in, 201–202; Garrison and, 180–182, 181, 201, 202; “Slave Market of America” broadside by, 180, 181, 181–182, 183, 272–273 (nn. 63–64) American Antiquarian Society, 266 (n. 21) American Bible Society (ABS), 142, 143, 269 (n. 39) American Biblical Repository, 14, 91 American Bloody Register (ABR): crime and violence in, 107–108; led selling of sin, 6, 29; model of, 112 American Colonization Society (ACS), 49–50 American Peace Society, 253–254 (n. 25), 260 (n. 65) American Revolution, 7, 146 American Slavery As It Is (Weld), 58, 61, 245 (nn. 59, 62) American Society for the Colonization of the Free People of Color, 49–50 American Society for the Promotion of Temperance, 24 Index 309 American Tract Society (ATS), 142, 143 Ames, Fisher, 152, 176, 271 (n. 58) The Anarchiad, 176 anarchy, 19, 91, 95, 150, 176, 214 angry God, 115, 200, 216; Cheever and, 99, 101, 140, 217; Emerson and, 12; Whittier on, 194 The Annals of Murder: A Bibliography of Books and Pamphlets on American Murders from Colonial Times to 1900 (McDade), 74, 250 (n. 13) Annals of Murder, or Daring Outrages, Trials, [and] Confessions: as Lippard’s source, 37; as pamphlet, 113; print capitalism revolution and, 6, 32, 35; sadism in, 29; Sun and, 114, 259 (n. 58); violent stories in, 29, 30, 31, 32, 114 Annan, Robert: Calvinism and, 10; on capital punishment, 3; death penalty supporter, 10; on democracy, 16, 24; Enlightenment and, 25; hanging supported by, 214; mimetic powers of punishment and, 66; “reign of chaos” and, 10, 25; skepticism and, 10, 25 anonymous authors. See An Authentic Life of John C. Colt; “The...
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