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2 2 3 Abolition Action Committee, 180 Adlington, F. M., 62 Ainsworth, William H., 20, 65–66, 68–70, 73, 79; Jack Sheppard, 66, 68–71, 73–75, 79, 82–84, 143, 194; Rookwood, 66 Alcott, Bronson, 183 Allen, Howard, 107 American Newgate fiction, 20–21, 65–66, 79–94, 111, 159, 161 American Union, 81 Andros, Rh. S. S., 46–47 anti-slavery movement, 16–18, 42, 47, 56, 95, 136, 177, 186, 191 Aristidean, 57, 59–60, 114, 116, 192, 197 Armstrong, Lebbeus, 77, 93 Arnold, Stephen, 187 “Arrow-Tip” (Whitman), 114–16 Aurora, 57 Bacon, Leonard, 77, 135 Bailey, Gamaliel, 149 Balch, William, 3 Ballou, Hosea, 80, 193 Ballou, Maturin Murray, 20, 79–80, 193–94; The History of Cuba, 194; The Outlaw, 80, 193–94; The Sea-Witch, 80; The Spanish Musketeer, 80, 194 Baltimore Saturday Visiter, 81 Banner, Stuart, 18, 32, 104, 106–07, 135, 140, 143, 183, 185, 192, 198 Barber, William, 108 Barnaby Rudge (Dickens), 66, 72 Barnes, Elizabeth, 24 Barnum’s American Museum, 149–50 Barton, Bernard, 61 Barton, John Cyril, 5, 16, 183, 185, 187–88, 195, 202 Baym, Nina, 200 Belson, Joel, 130–31 Bennett, Michael, 17 Bercovitch, Sacvan, 203 Bergman, Herbert, 195 Bergman, Jill, 17 Bernardi, Debra, 17 biblical arguments about capital punishment , 3, 26–27, 33, 48–54, 56–63, 71, 113, 171, 191–93 Billy Budd (Melville), 22–23, 160–61, 168–77, 180, 202–03 “The Black Cat” (Poe), 2, 6–11, 161, 184–85 Black, Stephen, 98, 129, 132 Bodine, Polly, 59, 103–05, 107, 196–97 Boston Courier, 136 Boston Quarterly Review, 41 Boston Saturday Rambler, 81 Boudreau, Kristin, 18, 98, 114, 129 I n d e x 2 2 4 Index arguments for, 5, 21, 46, 55–56, 77, 107–08, 113–14, 136, 177–78, 192, 197; as revenge, 3–4, 14, 16, 26–27, 33, 49–50, 61, 91–92, 112–13, 115–16, 147, 157, 159, 173, 176, 178, 199, 201; and slavery, 17–18, 107, 141–43, 149, 162, 177, 186; as tool of oppression, 2–3, 6–7, 11–12, 20, 32–33, 35, 37–39, 41, 44, 63, 119–22, 160, 170, 174–75, 189; warnings against abolition, 5–6, 29–30, 38–40, 77 Capote, Truman, 18, 178 Carlisle, Fred, 129 Carlyle, Thomas, 188 Cary, Alice, 25–26, 186 Cary, Phoebe, 25–26, 63, 186; “The Convict’s Child,” 26; “The Followers of Christ,” 26; “The Prisoner’s Last Night,” 26, 63 Cash, Johnny, 178–79 Channing, William Ellery, 28 Chapin, E. H., 80, 99, 108, 131–33, 178, 194; “Christian Sympathy,” 99, 131–33; Three Discourses upon Capital Punishment, 80, 108 Cheever, George B., 27, 37, 40, 61, 76, 93, 108, 184, 186, 191–92, 197; A Defense of Capital Punishment, 184, 192, 197; Punishment by Death, 40, 76, 93, 108, 191 Child, Lydia Maria, 8, 18, 22, 71, 135–37, 139, 146–47, 159, 185, 191; “Elizabeth Wilson,” 137; “Hilda Silfverling,” 137; “The Juryman ,” 137, 139, 146–47; Letters from NewYork , 8, 136, 146 Christ, 27, 47–50, 53, 58, 61, 108–10, 128–33, 136–38, 156–58, 170, 179, 197; as democrat , 48–49, 53; as model of forgiveness, 49–50, 61, 137, 156–58; as model of sympathy , 108–10, 129–33 Christianity, 3, 16, 22–27, 33, 41–42, 44–51, 53–56, 58–61, 63, 96, 98–99, 108–10, 113–14, 127, 128–33, 136–38, 145, 156, 162, 170, 178–80, 186, 191, 203 Chubb, Jerome, 107 Citizens United for Alternatives to the Death Penalty, 180 class (as factor in capital punishment), 67–68, 70, 82, 86, 101, 106–07 Clay, Henry, 87 Bradbury, Osgood, 79, 84 Bradford, Jonathan, 199 Brantlinger, Patrick, 68 Brasher, Thomas, 97, 114, 118, 195 Brimblecom, Samuel, 108, 131 Broadway Journal, 84, 184 Brooklyn Daily Eagle, 21, 57, 96–97, 99–101, 192, 195, 197 Brooklyn Daily Times, 195–96 Brother Jonathan, 81 The Brothers (Southworth), 142–45, 152, 157, 198, 200 Brownson, Orestes, 75 Bryant, William Cullen, 25, 97, 135, 185–86 Buckley, Matthew, 66, 69 Budington, William, 77 Bulwer (Bulwer-Lytton), Edward, 20, 65–69, 73, 75, 78–79, 193; Eugene Aram, 66; Night and Morning, 66; Paul Clifford, 66–69, 71, 73, 75, 79 Buntline, Ned, 20, 75, 79–80, 84–85; The Black Avenger, 84–85; Mysteries and Miseries of New York, 75 Campbell, James, 66 capital punishment: defenses of, 3, 5–7, 16, 20–21, 28–30, 34...

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