Polemical Pain: Slavery, Cruelty, and the Rise of Humanitarianism

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Index The letter f following a page number denotes a figure. abuse: concept of, 141, 143, 150–51, 153, 211– 12; defined as rare, 142–44, 200, 234–35 active benevolence, 123–24, 132, 135, 139, 192, 195–97 Adam and Eve, 2, 28, 52, 176, 179 Adger, John, 224 advice literature, 5–6, 140, 173, 206–9, 218, 290; formbooks, 207 African slavery, 76–77, 188, 223 African slave trade, 11, 220–26; abolition of, 85–89, 107, 186; cruelty of, 92–94, 213; defenses of, 189; expected e√ects of abolition, 47, 69, 79, 85–86; guilt for, 79, 112–13, 223; and internal slave trade, 220–26; proslavery criticisms of, 187–88, 224, 225; reopening of, 221–26; and slavery, 47, 79, 90–91, 107, 112–13, 186, 188–89, 220–26 African slave trade, illegal, 79, 107, 186–87; cruelty of, 188–89, 222 African slave trade, rhetorical focus on, 47, 79, 87, 91, 107–8, 109f, 111, 186–87 agency, 14–15; in pain, 121–23, 153–56; rhetorical emphasis on, 26, 38, 48, 110–11, 147, 153–56, 183. See also moral responsibility alcohol, associated with cruelty, 66, 131. See also intemperance Allen, Richard, 165 Allinson, Samuel, 44 altruism: distinguished from concern about cruelty, 51–54, 106, 114, 214; distinguished from sympathy, 266n24. See also self-interest amelioration: ambivalence of, 79–83, 104, 115– 16, 139, 172–73, 274n145, 301n77; calls for, 79–81, 104, 139–41, 164, 172–73, 206–7, 313; categorization of, 250n21, 274n145, 276n1; and inherent cruelty, 81–83, 112, 115, 117; strategy of, 79–80, 104, 145 American Anti-Slavery Almanac, 129–31, 167– 70, 299 American Anti-Slavery Society, 132, 149, 151 American Board of Commissions for Foreign Missions, 166 American Colonization Society, 105–6, 110, 115 American Slavery as It Is, 151–54, 159, 171, 200 Anderson, Alexander, 89, 90f anesthesia (ether), 1 animal cruelty, 1, 68, 199, 239, 254n3, 319n43; cockfighting, 133, 167; meat, 143–44, 288n54; moral disorder, 27–30, 54, 57, 130– 34; and slavery, 167, 168f, 256n46 animals, cruelty associated with, 70, 77, 147, 270. See also cats animals, slaves associated with, 11–12, 176, 185, 198 Anthony, Susan B., 229 appetites, 21–23. See also passions Aristotle, 11 Ars moriendi, 35–36 asceticism, 21–22, 26–27, 32–39, 44, 48, 260, 262 association, principle of, 54–55, 210 autonomy, 198–98, 307–8 Aylett, William Roane, 219 Bacon, Thomas, 4–5, 6, 140 Baker, Everard Green, 209–10 Baptist State Convention of Alabama, 5, 173 barbarism, 69–70, 76–78, 169–70, 223–26, 270 Barker-Benfield, G. J., 257n46, 269n69 322 Index Beakeley, Charles, 219 Beeny (enslaved), 211 benevolence, 49, 57; active, 122–28, 135–37, 195–96; disinterested, 59–63, 213–14; divine , 28, 58–65, 83, 98, 124, 178–79; local, 180, 214; moral philosophical emphasis, 51– 57, 63–65, 83–84 (see also human nature); schisms over, 164–66; scientific racism, 174–81; and self-interest, 8, 214, 215, 234, 291, 266; of slavery, 6, 116–18, 139–46, 206–7, 212–15, 224–25 Benezet, Anthony, 34, 40, 41, 44–45, 46, 47, 78; and value of su√ering, 35, 39, 255n5 Bentham, Jeremy, 124, 267 Bernard, Jesse, 210 Bible: bloodguilt, 103; curse of Canaan, 177; interpretation , 200, 228, 303n86, 308n50; Benjamin Lay, 26; monogenesis, 176–77, 302n86–303n86; slavery in, 200; sympathy , 36 Birney, James Gillespie, 167 Blackford, Charles, 196 Blackford, Mary, 196 Blake, William, 89 Blanding, Rachel, 100 blood, 74, 93, 151, 171, 182–83, 187, 225; bleeding hearts, 68, 97; bloody money, 165–66; of Christ, 23, 103; consumption, 23, 70 (see also cannibalism); emphasis on, 88–89, 98, 103, 146–47, 151, 156, 157, 171–72; fake, 26; retribution for, 99–105; sharks following, 90, 188; symbol of guilt, 22, 26, 44, 54, 98, 99– 105, 157, 281n69; whips covered in, 171, 182 bodies: of Christ, 23–24; comparison of slaves to, 11–12, 178; concern about focus on, 172, 191, 193–94, 197–99, 205; distinguished from mind, 11, 60, 172, 185, 198, 225–26; evidence of guilt, 22, 26, 44, 66–68, 101–2; reactions in, 66–67; sensual pleasures and pains of, 60, 177–78; subordinated to soul, 11, 16, 23–24, 36, 306n8; unimportance of, 16. See also blood; cannibalism; carnal; pain Bond, Priscilla Munnikhuysen, 211–12 Boulukos, George, 250n21, 274n145, 301n77 Bourne, George, 138, 146, 147, 150, 157 Boykin, Samuel, 143 Branagan, Thomas...