The Athens of America: Boston, 1825-1845

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1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 [First [203], Lines: ——— 0.0pt ——— Normal PgEnds: [203], Index Abbott, Richard, 123 Abolition movement, 54, 155, 162–170, 174–175 Adam brothers, England, 5 Adams, Charles Francis, 158 Adams, Henry, 7 Adams, John, 2, 11, 57, 92, 127 Adams, John Quincy, 19–23, 29 (illus.), 158 Adams, Samuel, 2, 57, 97 Adams, William, 180 “Address on War” (Emerson), 159 “Adventists,” 151 Africa, 35, 163 African American community: in colonial period, 35–36; life and society, 36–37; move to West End, 36; in post-Revolutionary period, 36; school segregation, 36–37 African Meeting House, 36 Agassiz, Lous, 98, 112 Ahab, Captain, 105 Alamo, the, 81 Alcott, Bronson, 108, 114, 120, 123, 155 Allen, Herbert, 57 Almshouse, 38, 39, 44, 58, 68 Alton Observer, 168 American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 118 American Antiquarian Society, 118 American Anti-Slavery Society, annual meeting, 177 American Association for the Advancement of Science, 112 American Asylum, 83 American Bible Society, 51, 81, 131 American Colonization Society, 163–164 American Education Society, 130 American Home Missionary Society, 130 American Lyceum Association, 117 American Mind in the Mid-Nineteenth Century (Bartlett), 107–108 American Party, 144–147 American Peace Society, 159–160 American Reformer, 147–148 American Sunday School Society, 131 American Tract Society, 131 American Notes (Dickens), 81 American Unitarian Association, 11 Ames, Fisher, 2 Amish, 150 Amory, Thomas, 5 Andover Creed, 130 Andover Theological Seminary, 83, 130 Anesthesia, first use of, 71 Ann Street, 37, 53, 128 Anthology Society, 115 Anthony, Susan B., 182 204 } Index 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 [204], Lines: —— 0.0pt ——— Normal PgEnds: [204], Anti-Abolitionist sentiment, 168–169, 170–172 Anti-Mason movement, 132 Antislavery societies, pre-1831, 162–163 Appeal on Behalf of that Class of Americans Called Africans (Child), 175 Appleton, Nathan, 13, 17, 96, 162, 166 Appleton, Samuel, Mrs., 48 Appleton, William, 112 Armstrong, Samuel, 34 Arnold, Matthew, 119 Aroostook County, Maine, 151 Asylum for the Repentant, 48 Athens, 92, 93, 97, 150, 185 “Athens of America,” 97, 105, 115, 119, 148, 188 Atlantic Monthly, 105, 115 “Auburn System,” penitentiary, 51, 156 “Autocrat of the Breakfast Table” (Holmes), 105, 115 Awful Disclosures (Monk), 135 Bancroft, George, 106, 142, 143 (illus.) Banner, Peter, 6, 99 Baptists, 59, 60, 130 “Barefoot Boy” (Whittier), 105 Barrell, Joseph, 84 Bartlett, Irving, 107 Bartlett, John, 68 Beacon Hill, 5–6, 17–18, 27–28, 36, 96, 110–111 Beam, Alex, 85 Beaumont, Gustave de, 111 Beecher, Catharine, 46 Beecher, Lyman, 11 Bell, Luther, 85, 89 Benedicta Community, 151 Benevolent Fraternity of Churches, 44 Benjamin, Asher, 6, 99 Bible, King James version, 145 Bible societies, 46, 131 Bigelow, Jacob, 117 Bigelow, John Prescott, 144 Birney, James G., 172 Blackwell, Henry Brown, 177 Blind persons, 77 Bloomer, Amelia Jenks, 182 Blue-Back Speller (Webster), 123 Board of Aldermen, 25 Board of Health, Boston, 74, 76 Bodo, John R., 148 Boston: the Bulfinch influence, 4–7; crime and poverty, 35–37; feminism and women’s rights, 175–188; Grecian influence in the city, 91–98; literature and learning, 99–125; medical and humanitarian advances, 66–77, 77–90; population diversity, 35– 37; radical reformers and social upheaval, 149–173; religious conflicts and “alien” influences, 126–148; the textile economy, 13–18; from town to city, 24–26; urban renewal under Josiah Quincy, 27–33 Boston & Albany Railroad, 15 Boston & Lowell Railroad, 15 Boston & Maine Railroad, 15 Boston Associates, 15–17, 42, 69 Boston Athenaeum, 17, 85, 110, 111, 118 Boston Chamber of Commerce, 68 Boston Common, 27, 38, 96 Boston Courier, 22, 89 Boston Daily Advertiser, 22, 37, 117, 144 Index { 205 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 [205], Lines: ——— 0.0pt ——— Normal PgEnds: [205], Boston Educational Commission, 122 Boston Female Anti-Slavery Society, 166, 167 Boston Female Asylum, 88 Boston Female Moral Reform Society, 48 Boston Female...