The Accidental Slaveowner: Revisiting a Myth of Race and Finding an American Family

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index References to James Osgood Andrew are abbreviated JOA. Abner (enslaved by Stone family), 52 abolitionists, on Andrew case, 78–79 Addison (enslaved by Greenwood and Andrew families), 257, 295, 335–37 affinal ties, 179, 266–67 African Methodist Episcopal (ame) Church, 3, 23, 148, 202, 210, 220, 228, 229, 232, 285 African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church, 23 Agee, James, 279–80 Aiken-Burnett, Hanna, 121–22 Alabama, xii, 2, 249, 265, 340. See also Cahawba, Ala.; Selma, Ala.; Summerfield, Ala.; Union (Union Beat), Ala.; University of Alabama Albert (enslaved by Means family), 52, 57 Aleck (Alleck; enslaved by Andrew family), 204, 259 Alexander (enslaved by McFarlane family), 254 Allen (enslaved by Means family), 204, 259 Allen Chapel ame Church (Rockford, Ill.), xii, 3, 12, 230, 282, 286 Allen Memorial United Methodist Church (Oxford, Ga.), xi, 11, 284 American Colonization Society, 188, 312 Andrew, Ann Amelia McFarlane (first wife of joa), 9, 34, 75, 76, 92, 137, 199, 295, 305, 308, 311; slavery connections of, 240–51 Andrew, Annie (granddaughter of joa), 239 Andrew, Ann Leonora Mounger Greenwood (second wife of joa), 249, 253, 299, 305, 311; death of, 204; slaves of, 251–64 Andrew, Benjamin (uncle of joa), 237 Andrew, Elizabeth (daughter of joa), 16, 34, 35, 76, 86, 151, 203, 295; joa’s letter to, 192; death and burial, 133, 137, 314 Andrew, Emily Sims Woolsey Heard Childers (third wife of joa), 204, 211, 297; marriage to joa, 264; slaves of, 209, 268 Andrew, Hardy (brother of joa), 204, 259, 295 Andrew, Henrietta (daughter of joa), 304 Andrew, Henrietta (freedperson), 340, 357 Andrew, James (son of joa), 294 Andrew, James Osgood, 295; as “accidental slaveowner,” 1, 16, 69, 83, 84; African Americans on, 1–2, 12–13; Atlanta Constitution on, 99; authors Kitty’s obituary, 73–76; Buck on, 106–7; Candler on, 104; critiqued by abolitionists, 78–80; 1844 defense against slaveholding charges, 68–70, 71; former slaves of, 334–40; Garrison on, 115–16; Hauk on, 124–25; Jakes on, 120–21; Jarrel on, 112–15; McCord on, 109– 11; Melton on, 99–101; Miscellanies (1854), 76, 85, 109, 204, 314; 1966 memorial to, 116–18; obituaries of, 80–81, 120; Pierce on, 94–95; Porter on, 9–12, 123–26; Redford on, 82–84; relationship with Kitty, 201; slaves owned by parents, 368 Index Andrew, James Osgood (continued) 237–40; slaves through first wife, 240–51; slaves through second wife, 251–64; slaves through third wife, 265; Smith biography of, 84–94; as southern Methodist martyr, 94; Stubbs on, 111–12; summary of slaves owned by, 235–37; supports missionization of slaves, 25, 77; in timeline, 311–17 passim; Wade on, 102–3. See also Kitty; Kitty’s Cottage; Methodist Episcopal Church, South (mec South) Andrew, John (father of joa), 237–39 Andrew, Mary Overton Cosby (mother of joa), 239 Andrew, Octavia (daughter of joa), 207, 211, 315 Andrew, Sarah (daughter of joa), 76, 192, 199 Andrew, Thomas (freedperson), 340, 357 Andrew, William (brother of joa), 239 Andrew College, 116 Andrews, Martin, 209, 303 Ann (enslaved by Greenwood family), 254 Anna (enslaved by Stone family), 52 Ansley, George, 198. See also George (enslaved by Shell family) Anthony (enslaved by Shell family), 194, 195, 296 Anthony, Milton, 320 Aphy (enslaved by Longstreet family), 52 Arches, Martin R., 227 Atkinson, Jack, 166 Atlanta Constitution, 80, 81, 94, 98–99 Atlanta Journal, 345 Atlanta Journal-Constitution, 347nn33–34 Augusta, Ga., xii, 3, 70; antebellum, 187, 189; Kitty in, 185 Augusta Chronicle, 187 Aurora, Illinois, 230 Auslander, Ellen. See Schattschneider, Ellen Auslander, Mark, 271; criticisms of, 272–73; in Oxford cemetery, 273 Bakhtin, Mikhail, 277 Banks, Millie, 228 Banks, Sarah, 228 Banneker Relief Association, 225 Barthes, Roland, 277 Bass, Henry, Jr., 192 Beall, Ann, 320–21 Beckert, Sven, 27 Beloved (Morrison), 38 Ben (enslaved by Meriwether family), 239, 353n10 Benjamin, Walter, 280 Benton, Hezekiah, xi, 287, 288 bequests of slaves, 236, 245, 267, 343n4 Berlin, Ira, 27 Bethlehem Baptist Church (Covington, Ga.), xi, 287, 356n1 Billy (“Black Billy”; enslaved by McFarlane and Andrew families), 70, 151, 192, 203, 244, 245, 248– 49, 267, 296; confused with Jacob, 112, 269; confused with others, 124; G.G. Smith on, 353n21; same as William Neal, 249 Black Methodist Society (Charleston, S.C.), 352n8 Blight, David, Race and Reunion, 95–96, 101, 345n3 blood and law, cultural opposition of, 32–36 Boas, Franz, 36, 98 Bonder, Julian, 290 Bone, Richard, 278 Bourdieu, Pierre, 17, 21, 341n7, Boyd, Alfred (Alford), 205, 230; childhood, 202...