Performing the Temple of Liberty: Slavery, Theater, and Popular Culture in London and Philadelphia, 1760–1850

Index

abolitionism: and Africa colonization projects, 103–4, 110–11; American Revolution and, 21–22; blackface burlesque and, 63–65, 179–80, 247–48, 252; Britannia as symbol of, 30, 52–53, 54, 59, 72–74, 86, 87, 113, 229–31, 248, 250; British Emancipation Act and, 181–82, 200–201, 287–88n84; conservative, 71, 85; Cruikshank satirization of, 123–24; Forten and, 181, 184, 201; and French Revolution, 52, 67–68; Fugitive Slave Act and, 227; Garrison and, 181, 184, 201, 216; Lippard and, 232, 241–42, 243; in London, 8, 13, 52, 59, 63–65, 68–69; parliamentary, 73–74, 75, 79, 81–82, 101; Pennsylvania Abolition Society, 20, 22, 24, 64, 184, 204; in Philadelphia, 8, 13, 35, 186, 204; public opinion and, 9, 21–22, 43, 68–69, 73, 86, 157; Society for the Abolition of the Slave Trade, 2, 52, 59, 64, 88, 90; theater and, 3, 5, 104–5; and urban democratic impulse, 144–45, 147–48 Ackerman, Rudolph, 120, 134 Adams, Abigail, 28 Adams, John Quincy, 132 Addison, Joseph, 192 Adelphi Theatre: about venue, 130–31, 155–56; stagings, 129, 153, 155, 175, 205–6, 211 Adonai: The Pilgrim of Eternity (Lippard), 242 Africa: Britannia and, 95–97, 113; classical depictions of, 92; as “dark continent,” 14–15, 86, 87, 90–91, 92, 107, 109; imperial efforts in, 88, 113, 248–49; missionaries in, 87, 90, 91–92, 93–94; as natural paradise, 90, 271n12; “savages” in, 98, 103, 105, 106, 230; and slave trade, 97–98, 99–101 Africa colonization projects, 15, 92–93, 103, 113, 248–49; abolitionists and, 103–4, 110–11; black community opposition to, 110, 111; Branagan and, 36–37, 50, 88; Cuffe dream of, 107; Liberia and, 50, 88, 90–91, 104, 109, 183, 248; Sierra Leone and, 30, 62–63, 87–88, 90, 92, 107, 267n36; slave revolts and, 109–10, 183 African Institution, 88, 90, 107 The Africans (Colman), 98–103; American stage adaptation of, 90, 103, 104–5, 107, 275n85; Florian novel as basis of, 98–99; London reception of, 102–3, 158; Park’s Travels and, 98, 99; Philadelphia opening of, 103, 107; racial theories embodied in, 90, 95, 101, 102, 200; slave trade depiction in, 90, 99–101 African Sal, 122–23, 124, 130, 149 African Slavery in America (Paine), 21 African Tammany dialogues, 46–49, 140, 152, 204 Agamemnon, 159–61, 162–63 Akien, George, 252 Aldridge, Ira, 223–24 Algeria, 44, 264n107 Allen, Richard, 36, 42, 110, 142 American Anti-Slavery Society, 182, 201, 210–11 American Colonization Society (ACS), 88, 91, 92, 109, 110, 146, 183 American Negro Slavery (Philips), 253 American Notes for General Circulation (Dickens), 229 American Revolution, 14, 192, 222, 231, 237; black refugees from, 59, 62; impact in Britain of, 53, 54, 55, 63, 66, 86; and liberty, 18–19, 54, 248; and slavery question, 9, 20–21, 54, 248, 250; and women’s rights, 28 Anti-Slavery League, 217 Anti-Slavery Reporter, 157, 172, 216 Anti-Slavery Society (Britain), 157, 171–72, 182, 200–201, 287–88n84 Arbuthnot, Harriet, 130 Arch Street Theatre: about venue, 166; stagings at, 116, 133, 153, 166, 168–69, 188, 202, 286n49 Arne, Thomas Augustine, 52 Articles of Confederation, 22 Art Pantheon and Ampitheatre, 198 Astley’s Ampitheatre, 66, 268n51 Atkinson, Samuel Coates, 195, 196–97 index Page numbers in italics indicate illustrations. 304 Index Austin, William, 266–67n29 Avery, Robert, 55 Bamboozled (Lee), 254 Bancroft, George, 190 Banks, Joseph, 91 Barker, James, 104 The Bastille (Reynolds), 67 Bates, Kathryn, 109 Beecher, Lyman, 170 Behn, Aphra, 238, 247 Benezet, Anthony, 95 Benger, E., 95–96 Bernard, W. B., 148 Bickerstaffe, Isaac, 44–45, 59, 198, 224, 247, 254 Bird, Robert Montgomery, 164, 182; antislavery views of, 182, 188–89, 190–91; The Gladiator , 182–94, 212; Pelopidas, 187; Shepard Lee, 185–86 The Birth of a Nation (Griffith), 252–53 black actors, 223–24 The Black and White Minstrel Show (television show), 254 black churches, 36, 92, 110, 142 black dialect, 43–45, 234, 238 blackface: antislavery uses of, 179–80, 210, 223, 224, 236–37, 247–48, 250, 252; clowns, 70, 198; contemporary use of, 11, 253, 254; Mathews and, 155, 173, 205–6; as mockery, 6, 18, 49, 50, 71–72, 135–39, 252; Mungo character and, 59–66; oral, 43–49, 134, 152, 164–65, 248; plebeian radicals in, 76; in popular culture, 204; rural gangs in, 76; supplicants, 15, 54, 72, 74–75, 80, 84–86...