Creating the Culture of Reform in Antebellum America

Index

I N D E X abolitionism, 2, 84, 130, 137, 144–45, 190; Angelina Grimké’s sympathy for, 81; Catharine Beecher’s views on, 109–11; and the Constitution, 156, 158; and Emerson, 173–74; Garrisonian, 100, 147; gradualist (see gradualism); histories of, 215n5; immediatist (see immediatism); peaceful, 95; political, 138–40, 146, 151–58 passim, 183, 186, 199; pro-Constitution, 7; radical, 68–69, 94, 108–9, 155, 162, 183, 186; self-reliant, 185; Unitarian participation in, 68; and Webster, 186–87. See also antislavery; antislavery movement; colonization movement abolitionists, 23, 81–82, 125; Emerson’s criticism of, 161; Garrisonian, 100; immediatist, 109; interracial collaboration of, 149; New England, 19 access, to public discourse, 7, 12–15, 67, 88, 163, 166, 212n19; for African Americans, 26, 101, 121–23, 199; and equality, 67, 96, 97–102, 103; and race, 123; for women, 19, 26, 75–107 passim, 119, 132, 199 activism, 119–20, 130; of African Americans, 150; antislavery, 197; benevolence as, 76; censorship of, 188–89; and dissent, 83; and femininity, 94; private conversation as, 94; public, 10, 90; and reading, 92; social, 93; women’s participation in, 94–95, 97, 100, 102, 109 Adams, Nehemiah, 97–101 passim, 107, 141 Adorno, Theodor W., 37 African Americans, 6, 19, 25–26, 101, 217n31, 218n39; access for, 26, 101, 121–23, 199; activism of, 150; and citizenship, 122, 160; equality of, 83, 91, 96, 123, 157; feminization of, 113, 143; and free blacks, 22, 148; participation of, in public discourse, 7 Ahlstrom, Sydney, 53 Alcott, Bronson, 161 alienation, 173–74, 189, 195 Allen, Joseph Henry, 53 American Anti-Slavery Society, 82, 93, 121, 130, 147–48, 156; Channing’s view of, 69–70; Douglass’s speech at, 141–42; Emerson’s embrace of, 187; Garrison’s creation of, 129; rhetoric of, 109; women’s participation in, 74 American Bible Society, 34 American Colonization Society, 132 American culture, models of, 9–10 American Peace Society, 132 American Revolution, 1, 31, 84, 131, 215n7 American Tract Society, 34 American Unitarian Association, 44 American Woman’s Education Association, 210–11n7 Amory Hall lecture series, 54, 184 Andover Seminary, 41 Anthony Burns case, 138 antiblack press, 150 anti-immigrant movement, 25 antislavery, 69, 73, 78, 113, 129–31, 190; Angelina Grimké on, 81, 87; appeals for, 212n14; Boston, 193; censorship of, 197, 219n2; consensus of, 95; and 238 i n d e x antislavery (continued) domesticity, 111; of Emerson, 182, 183, 185–86; Garrisonian, 5, 19, 68–69, 112, 146; and moral suasion, 125; press, 92, 94; propaganda, 92; rhetoric of, 112, 153; rights-based argument for, 83; sublimation of, 128; Unitarian support for, 68; and women, 90, 93, 94, 103–4, 107, 109, 119; and women’s rights, 82, 90. See also abolitionism; antislavery movement antislavery debate, 85, 112, 113, 117 antislavery movement, 1–4, 52, 84, 114, 130–31, 137; Angelina Grimké’s entry into, 81–82; and anti-immigrant movement, 25; and Catharine Beecher, 107, 114; and Emerson, 177, 183, 185, 186; and Fuller, 203n5; Garrison’s entrance into, 125; and political abolitionism, 152; rhetoric of, 107; and Unitarianism, 68–73; and women, 7, 76–83 passim, 90, 94, 132; and women’s rights, 124. See also abolitionism; antislavery antislavery press, 38, 92, 94, 130, 149–50 Auld, Thomas, 143–45 authenticity, 7, 15; and Angelina Grimké, 85–86; and Catharine Beecher, 103, 108, 117, 120; and Emerson, 162–63, 171–90 passim, 196; and femininity, 94, 112; moral, 95; personal, 119; and vulnerability, 86 authorial intent, 12 authority, 20, 24, 30, 145, 201; Angelina Grimké’s appropriation of, 100; biblical, 38–39, 41, 58–59, 61; biblical descriptions of, 87; civil, 6, 12, 20, 87, 153, 168, 212n19; clerical, 33–41 passim, 46, 63, 74, 97–107 passim; congregational, 45; of consensus, 23; constitutional, 56, 151, 152, 157; construction of, 13, 118; critical, 120, 126, 147, 149; cultural, 79, 107, 117, 146; democratic, 15, 22–23, 52, 167, 177, 180–82; diffusion of, 24, 72, 109; divine, 22, 37, 65, 134; and domesticity, 75–76, 94, 103, 104, 119; and Douglass, 147; epistemological, 31–33; Federalist structures of, 46; Garrison’s construction of, 126; and gender, 91–92, 97, 104, 114, 115, 213n40; individual, 146; institutional discourses of, 179; to interpret the Bible, 58; lay, 44; and leadership, 79, 213n40; models of, 29, 48; moral (see moral authority); and partisanship, 24; paternal, 79; perfectionist, 125–40; and pluralism, 40, 145, 200; political, 18–24 passim, 32, 75, 91–92...