The Imperfect Revolution: Anthony Burns and the Landscape of Race in Antebellum America

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157 Aberdeen, Lord, 92 Abolitionism/abolitionists, 67, 136n9, 139n79; alienation from other citizens, 36–37, 40, 42–43, 59, 143n48; Boston’s reputation for, 35, 146n89; Burns’s, 116, 118–19, 124–25; in Canada, 92–93, 99–100, 105, 118, 151n61; criticisms of Loring, 83–84, 146n105; denouncing slaveholders, 65, 72; divisiveness in, 40–42, 127n9, 133n24; effects of, 27, 37, 49, 65, 68–69, 71–72, 78, 117, 122, 145n86; effects of Burns’s affair on, xiii–xiv, xvi– xvii, 83–84; effects of Burns’s rendition in, 23, 45–48, 58–59, 61, 122, 145n86; on fugitive slave laws, 34, 36, 45–46; fugitive slaves as, 13; goals of, xvii, 30, 34; impotence of, 36, 45; increasing militancy of, xiv, 31–33, 37–38, 58, 80, 92–93, 123–24; international, xix, 81; New England Antislavery Society, 55; obstacles to, 51, 72, 107, 127n9; in politics, 26, 48, 136n24; portrayals of, 42–43, 72, 143n48; race and, xvi, xviii, 25; racial split in, xvi, 38, 55–56, 58–59, 61, 123; radical, 31–33, 42–43; resisting renditions, xi, 93; South overestimating influence of, 66–67, 82–83, 140n10, 146n89; Southern fear of, 80–81, 144n62; Southern newspapers criticizing, 68, 70, 72, 141n17; in St. Catherines, 107–8, 112, 116, 124–25, 154n93; tactics of, xi, 30, 40, 45, 51, 93, 127n9, 129n14, 154n93; as threat to law and order, 42–43, 45, 72; violence against, 31, 45; women as, 50–51. See also Antislavery sentiments; Emancipation Acorn, 36–37 Adams, Charles Francis, 48 Adams, Elias, 109 Adams, John, 6, 10, 11, 34, 43, 81, 122 Adams, Samuel, 6, 10, 11, 34, 81, 122 Africa, in colonization proposals, 102, 142n42, 142n44 African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church, 39, 110–11 African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church, 38, 39 Agency: Burns’s downplayed, xiii, 56–57, 123; of Canadian blacks, xix, 118–19, 124–25 Agriculture: blacks’ experience with, 107; in Canada, 90, 107; in elevation of blacks, 103–4 Alberti, George F., 89 Alcott, Bronson, 50 Allen, H. W., 64, 140n7 Allen, Richard, 110 American Party, 46–47 American Revolution, ix, xv, xviii, 11, 33, 34, 46, 56, 61–62, 119, 122, 123, 124, 148n10 Anderson, John, fugitive slave, 99, 150n35. See also Burton, Jack (aka John Anderson) Anderson, Pastor John, 112 Anniversary Week, 8–9, 51 Antislavery sentiments: in Boston, xvi; in Britain, 87–88, 91–92, 98; in Canada, 91–92, 96–97, 148n11; effects of renditions on, xiv–xvii, 127n7; increasing, xvii, 127n7; purchase of Burns’s freedom and, 53–54; South overestimating, xvii, 66–67, 124. See also Abolitionism/abolitionists Appeal to the Coloured Citizens of the World (Walker), 72, 142n44 e P I L O gu e Index 158 index Arrests: Burns’s, 9; in effort to rescue Burns by force, 13–14, 21; under Fugitive Slave Law, 35, 134n59 Artillery: guarding Burns’s return, 18, 20, 44; repulsing effort to rescue Burns, 13–14 Ashburton, Lord, in negotiations with Webster, 97–99, 150n35, 150n37 Ashcroft, John, 143n53 Attucks, Crispus, 38 Auld, Hugh, 128n3 Baggs, Isaac, 108 Baker, H. Robert, 146n95 Ball, the Reverend Richard, 87 Banks, Henry, 1 Bank War, 1 Barbour, B. J., 65–66, 79, 145n81, 86 Barney, William, 141n26, 144n62 Barnum, P. T., 57 Barry, Charles C., 139n80 Batchelder, James, 13, 19, 59, 66, 130n37, 139n75, 142n37 Battle of Slabtown, 115 Bay Street Club, 20, 44, 59 Bearse, Austin, 36–37, 137n43 Beman, Jehiel C., 38 Berlin, Ira, ix Bibb, Henry, 101, 105, 150n43, 150n48, 151n53, 151n57; on agriculture, 103–4, 107; on blacks’ right to vote in Canada, 101–2; on education, 102–3, 154n98; organizing North American Convention of Coloured People, 102–3 Bigelow, John P., 35, 36 Bird, Francis W., 135n43 Black Laws, Northern, 27, 116; Canada’s lack of, 101–2; in free states, 25, 87 Black Reconstruction in America (Du Bois), xvi Black soldiers, xvii, 91, 124 Blackburn, Thorton, 92 Blacks: achievements of, 28, 118; antislavery activities of in Canada, 93–96, 99–100, 102, 118; in Boston, 8, 35, 38–40, 123; in Canada, 104–5, 117, 118, 151n56; civil rights: controversy over, xvii; civil rights for, xvii, 7, 123–24; education for, 102–3; efforts to rescue fugitive slaves, 12–13, 30, 35, 50, 93–96; exodus to Canada, 101; to avoid kidnappers, 147n6; fear of kidnappers, 89–90; fearing effects of Fugitive Slave Law, 88–89; historical literature on, xvi; increasing militancy of, 37–38, 58, 60, 80–81, 123–24; kidnapping...