A Self-Evident Lie: Southern Slavery and the Threat to American Freedom

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Index 165 Index 165 Abbott, John, 97 Abolitionists, 5–6; danger of inferiority rationale, 37–38; and the legacy of the founders, 127; and light-skinned slaves, 9–10; prejudice of, 42; republicans distinguished from, 10–11, 26; southern reaction to, 51–52, 82, 109 Adams, charles Francis, 121 Adams, John, 89, 93, 121, 126, 130 Ashley, James m., 10, 41 Ashworth, John, 5, 63–64 Atchison, david rice, 18 bancroft, George, 122 banks, nathaniel P., 29 barbour, James, 132 barksdale, William, 43 bayne, Thomas r., 50 beecher, Henry Ward, 96–97 bell, John, 20 bennett, Henry, 88 benton, Thomas Hart, 18, 25 berwanger, eugene, 5 birney, James G., 11 blair, Francis P., 53 bliss, Philemon, 68 boucher, chauncey, 88–89 bowie, Thomas F., 92 brack, Gene, 39 breckinridge, John c., 31, 82, 107 brooks, Preston, 79, 94 brown, Albert Gallatin, 81, 105 brown, John, 71, 134 brown, Joseph e., 72 buchanan, James, 12, 40–41, 56, 67–68, 120, 136; on the lecompton constitution , 28–31 burlingame, Anson, 124 butler, Andrew, 67 butler, Pierce, 1 calhoun, John c., 39, 47; opposition to universal liberty, 103–4, 125; and white equality, 72–73, 92 cass, lewis, 19, 25 catholics, 40, 44 cecil-Fronsman, William, 6 chaffee, calvin, 117 chambers, William, 46 chase, salmon P., 10, 124, 127 chestnut, James, 62 chinese: characterized as “inferior,” 41 choate, rufus, 121 clay, Henry, 36, 95, 110 clayton, John m., 112 cleland, Philip s., 106 compromise of 1850, 18–19 corwin, Thomas, 105, 112 166 index craven, Avery, 5 crawford, Thomas, 111 curtis, benjamin, 114–16 curtis, George William, 134–35 davis, david brion, 84 davis, Jefferson, 47, 68, 74; appeal to the declaration of independence, 135; and curse of Ham, 85; opposition to “liberty cap,” 111; and peonage, 80–81 davis, moses m., 88 day, timothy c., 54 detweiler, Philip, 128 dew, Thomas r., 50–52, 82 dixon, Archibald, 18, 43 doolittle, James, 61–62, 127 douglas, stephen A., 3, 6, 12–13, 22–23, 27, 33, 36–37, 44, 66, 69, 82, 91, 97, 116, 120–21, 130, 138; appeal to the revolutionary heritage of popular sovereignty , 122–28, 132–34; on “inferior races,” 25–26, 38, 77; and introduction of Kansas-nebraska, 17–21; on the “natural limits of slavery,” 29–31; opposition to lecompton constitution, 28, 32; opposition to secession, 136, 139; and peonage, 80–81 douglass, Frederick, 26, 105–6; on equality, 122 downs, solomon W., 56 dred scott decision, 14, 25, 32, 34, 49, 101; blacks excluded from citizenship and declaration of independence , 114–16; origins of, 113–14; as a threat to American liberty, 117–19 edgerton, sidney, 83 elliot, charles, 37 emerson, eliza, 113, 117 emerson, John, 113 emerson, ralph Waldo, 121 etcheson, nicole, 6 Filmer, robert, 59 Fitzhugh, George: author of “complexion ” editorials, 60–61; background of, 57; on curse of Ham, 85; historians ’ views on, 61–62; on inferiority, 47–48; on land as a “safety valve,” 65–66; on superiority of slave labor, 58–60, 63–64, 68–69, 74, 79, 97; on voting rights, 77 Foner, eric, 6, 42, 89, 134 Forbes, robert Pierce, 103 Franklin, benjamin, 1–3, 51, 86, 95, 108, 110, 126–27 Fredrickson, George m., 71–72, 85 Freehling, William, 103 Freeman, marcus, 50 Fry, William Henry, 47–48 Fugitive slave law, 9, 94 Gag rule, 5, 91, 94 Garrison, William lloyd, 9–11, 51, 60, 88, 93, 106 Geary, John W., 28 Genovese, eugene, 61–62, 70 Germans: republican appeal to, 12–13, 25, 34, 40 Giddings, Joshua r., 120, 134–35 Gienapp, William, 5, 7, 53; on the slave Power and fear of conspiracy, 88–89, 99 Goodell, William, 45 Grant, Ulysses s., 42 Grayson, William J., 62–63 Greeley, Horace, 29, 32, 134 Guelzo, Allen, 8, 136 Hammond, James Henry, 47–49, 52, 62, 107; and racial aristocracy, 92; on superiority of slave labor, 67–68, 79 Herndon, William H., 55, 60, 98–99 Herrenvolk democracy, 64, 71–74 Holt, michael, F., 7 Houston, sam, 20 Hunter, robert m. t., 62, 68, 81, 83 Huston, James l., 6, 31, 80 indian removal Act, 90–91 irish: republican appeal to, 12–13, 25, 45, 84; characterized as “inferior,” 39–41 Jackson, James, 1–3, 51 Jaffa, Harry v., 7–8, 112, 123, 127 Index 167 Japanese: characterized as “inferior,” 41 Jay, John, 86 Jay, William, 87–88, 90–91 Jefferson, Thomas, 16, 25, 34...