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abolition, 21, 22, 28, 29, 34, 46, 63–5, 67–9, 71–3, 81, 85, 89, 98, 99, 103, 110, 115, 117, 121, 122, 124, 128, 129, 131, 132, 140, 141, 143, 157, 194, 227. See also antislavery Adorno, Theodor, 11–3, 191 Africanism, 31, 35, 42, 46, 54–6, 83, 139, 223, 227, 231, 232 Allen, Elizabeth Akers: “Rock Me to Sleep,” 53, 189 American Antiquarian Society, 3, 86, 87, 88, 89, 90, 94 antebellum, 7, 20–2, 27–9, 39, 40, 47, 48, 53, 54, 85, 99, 103–5, 107, 119, 123, 125, 131, 132, 143, 144, 155, 161, 165, 167, 185, 192, 201, 202, 224, 227, 232 antislavery, 4, 21, 22, 24, 25, 29, 65–7, 71–3, 84, 86, 97, 232 Armstrong, Isobel, 68 Auden, W. H., 191 Baldwin, James, 15–8, 22 Bannerji, Himani, 6, 8, 14, 15, 22 Bederman, Gail, 222 Bennett, Paula Bernat, 39, 56, 106, 299n, 303 blackness, 5, 20, 27, 33, 78, 114, 139, 141, 157, 165, 187, 227, 231 Boler, Megan, 180 Bourdieu, Pierre, 10, 16, 17 Boyd, Melba Joyce, 127 Boylan, Anne M., 195 Brodhead, Richard, 96 Brogan, T. V. F., 9, 10 Index Brown, William Wells, 76 Browning, Elizabeth Barrett, 106, 152; “The Runaway Slave at Pilgrim’s Point,” 28, 68–71, 75, 77, 78, 80–2, 85 Browning, Robert, 58, 113–4 Bryant, William Cullen, 217; “Thanatopsis ,” 39–41, 221 Burgess, Frank Gelett: “ELIZABETH: A Gloomy Story, / (Perhaps it is an Allegory ),” 33, 42–3; “The Purple Cow,” 33, 37, 42, 43, 189, 228 Cameron, Sharon, 5, 11, 12, 17 Carryl, Charles, 189 Champney, Lizzie W.: “How Persimmons Took Cah ob der Baby,” 31, 104, 223–30, 288–92 Chandler, Elizabeth Margaret: “The Kneeling Slave,” 67, 73–6, 78, 79, 83, 84, 121, 157, 237 Child, Lydia Maria: An Appeal in Favor of That Class of Americans Called African, 21, 22, 65; The Mother’s Book, 188, 193 Chomsky, Noam, 191 Civil War, 20, 34, 53, 55, 65, 109, 127, 129, 139, 141, 148, 154, 158, 161, 189, 224 Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 191 Collins, Patricia Hill, 24 Cooper, James Fenimore, 89 Coultrap-McQuin, Susan, 45 Davis, Mollie E. Moore, 104, 108 de Quincey, Thomas, 56 Dickinson, Emily, 11, 27, 37–40, 49–69; “The Malay–took the Pearl,” 55–69, 299n; “Publication–is the Auction,” 53–4 didacticism, 31, 38, 127, 200, 204, 205, 208, 210, 218, 226, 227 Dobson, Joanne, 51, 53 Dodson, Howard, 25 Dodge, Mary Mapes, 31, 107, 199, 206–8, 221, 223, 227; Hans Brinker, 210–12; “The Mayor of Scuttleton,” 201, 208–9, 288; “Poor Crow,” 219–20; “Shepherd John,” 200, 282; “Taking Time to Grow,” 215–20, 222; “The Way to Do It,” 202, 203, 220, 222, 223, 283–4; “The Wooden Horse,” 203–5, 285–6 Douglas, Ann, 48, 298n Douglass, Frederick, 75, 122, 212–3 DuBois, W. E. B., 26, 172–3 emancipation, 7, 8, 21, 22, 24, 26, 28, 29, 32, 46, 53, 55, 56, 58, 81, 104, 105, 108, 117, 131, 132, 134, 136, 137, 139, 141, 144, 157, 212, 218, 224 Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 23–26, 37, 39, 40, 49 Erkkila, Betsy, 51, 54 Faulkner, William, 22 femininity, 29, 30, 46, 48, 73, 81, 93, 106, 112, 114, 165, 185, 228 Field, Eugene, 37, 189 folk, 31, 34, 35, 39, 42, 52, 68, 123, 127, 144, 185–7, 195, 200, 210, 221, 223, 231 Follen, Eliza Lee, 31, 75, 191–6, 216, 233, 307–8n Forten, Sarah Louisa: “An Appeal to Women,” 67, 73–6, 78, 79, 83, 84, 88, 113, 121, 237–8 Foster, Frances Smith, 67, 76 Franklin, R. W., 55, 56 Freire, Paolo, 176 Frost, Robert, 188, 308n Gaines, Kevin, 171, 172 322 Index Gannon, Susan R., 210, 217 Garrison, William Lloyd, 65, 66, 71, 79 Gilbert, Sandra, 50 Godey’s Ladies Book, 47, 64, 65, 169 Godey, Louis, 65 Gould, Hannah Flagg, 4–8, 15, 19, 22, 28, 32, 66, 67, 106, 120, 123, 143, 201, 215–6; “Apprehension,” 203–4, 284; “The Butterfly’s Dream,” 206–8, 286–7; “The Child’s Address to the Kentucky Mummy,” 3–5, 7, 11, 17, 18, 21, 31, 70, 85–100, 112, 119, 185–7, 191, 192, 203–4, 210, 241–2; “The Slave Mother’s Prayer,” 70, 76–85, 88, 94, 97, 98, 139, 204, 240–1 Griswold, Rufus, 93 Gubar, Susan, 50 Habegger, Alfred, 56 Habermas, Jurgen, 186 Hale, Sarah Josepha, 31, 47, 48, 64–67, 83, 98, 187, 192–4...

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