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Bailey Index More Information 189 Index abolitionist movement African Diaspora in Britain, 55 – 56 democratization of memory and, 153 – 154 Kemble’s involvement in, 50 – 55 ethnic identity of slaves and, 23 – 24 advertisements for slave auctions, 9 – 10 homelessness and memory for, 165 – 167 African American churches resiliency and memory in, 168 – 170 Reconstruction era growth of, 89 – 90 African Voices of the Slave Trade: Beyond recovery of slave families and, 22 the Silence and the Shame (Bailey), African American Civil War memorial, 161 26 – 27 , 153 – 154 African American newspapers, Akan/ Ashanti heritage, in African advertisements for family Diaspora, 23 – 24 members om, 116 – 119 Aksum, 86 – 89 African Americans Alcoff, Linda Martin, 164 contested memories of the Civil War for, Ali, Muhammad (Cassius Clay), 149 – 151 161 – 163 American Colonization Society, 161 genealogical research by, 22 – 23 American Revolution, slavery history of recovery for, 21 during, 40 – 43 homelessness and memory for, 165 – 167 Anti- Slavery Society (Philadelphia), 50 naming practices of, 149 – 151 apprenticeships after slavery, 55 – 56 statistics on families of, 21 – 22 Articles of Confederation, 40 African culture Articles of Secession, 160 agricultural traditions in, 59 – 63 Atlantic slave trade, decline of, 94 – 95 ancestral names in, 147 – 149 auctions of slaves boatmen’s musical traditions, 71 – 74 advertisements for, 9 – 10 Christianity in, 86 – 89 breakup of families and, 3 – 6 , 11 – 16 , cotton cultivation and techniques 19 – 21 , 22 , 28 – 29 , 96 – 97 , 102 – 105 , from, 67 – 70 116 – 119 indigenous religions in, 87 Butler Plantation auction, 3 – 6 modern African American naming as debt payment, 7 – 8 , 26 – 27 practices and, 149 – 151 homelessness and memory of, 165 – 167 rice cultivation in, 59 – 63 newspaper accounts of, 11 – 16 sacredness in, 87 , 173 – 174 objectii cation of human beings slavery and migration of, 20 – 21 and, 26 – 27 transatlantic contributions from, 66 – 67 Augustine (St.), 163 – 164 189 © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-19305-5 — The Weeping Time Anne C. Bailey Index More Information 190 190 Index back to Africa movement, 161 Butler, Christopher, 137 – 139 Bailey, Cornelia, 60 Butler, Frances. See Leigh, Frances Butler Baird, Archibald W., 14 , 134 Butler, Gabriella, 8 – 9 Baker, Thomas, 100 , 144 – 145 Butler, Henrietta Percy (Lady), 38 Baldwin, William, 144 Butler, Israel, 137 – 139 , 141 – 142 Ball, Edward, 28 – 29 Butler, Joan, 29 – 30 , 137 – 139 , 141 – 142 , battle reenactments, 173 – 174 149 – 151 Beachman, Clifford, 160 , 163 Butler, John, 7 , 38 – 39 , 64 , 123 Beckles, Hilary, 127 Butler, John (Chattel no. 99), 134 , 135 – 136 Berlin, Ira, 173 Butler, Morris, 137 – 139 , 141 – 142 Berry, Mary Frances, 20, 126 – 127 Butler, Pierce (Major), 7 , 37 – 40 Bestes, Peter, 42 Fugitive Slave Law proposed by, 44 – 45 Bibles, slaves’ petitions for, 82 , 85 – 86 Hampton Point managed by, 63 – 64 Bicentennial of the Abolition of the slavery compromise at Constitutional Atlantic slave trade, 154 – 156 Convention and, 40 – 43 black agency, colored troops in Civil War Butler, Pierce Mease, 7 and, 99 – 102 as absentee owner, 64 black families. See also families career and i nancial problems of, 7 – 9 current research on, 24 – 25 Civil War and, 104 – 105 descendants’ recovery of lineages of, 133 courtship and marriage to Fanny family name preservation by, 132 , Kemble, 46 – 50 141 – 142 divorce from Kemble, 95 – 96 , 103 – 104 memory and resilience in, 169 – 170 illness of, 71 – 72 reconstruction and restoration of, 19 – 21 , Kemble’s concern over slavery 22 , 25 – 26 , 29 – 30 , 116 – 119 and, 52 – 55 resiliency of, 21 – 26 marriage to Fanny Kemble, 28 – 29 slave auctions and break- up of, 3 – 6 , pensions for slaves and, 126 – 127 11 – 16 , 19 – 21 , 22 , 28 – 29 , 96 – 97 , postwar restoration of plantation by, 102 – 105 , 116 – 119 89 – 90 , 119 – 123 statistics on, 21 – 22 slave auction held by, 3 , 37 – 40 Black Family reunion movement, 22 – 23 , slave burial ground provided by, 80 24 – 25 slaves owned by, 119 , 134 , 145 – 46 , 153 Black Rice (Carney), 61 – 63 voting by free slaves resisted by, Blassingame, John, 20 123 – 126 Bleach, Hannah, 142 – 144 Butler, Richard (Sir), 38 Bleach, Ned, 29 – 30 , 100 , 141 – 142 Butler, Singleton, 137 – 139 Bleach, Scena, 29 – 30 , 100 , 141 – 142 Butler, Thomas, 38 Blight, David, 20 , 161 – 163 Butler Island Plantation, 39 boatman, musical traditions of, 71 – 74 African American genealogy and, Bowser, Mary Elizabeth, 101 139 – 141 “Brothers War,” Civil War as, 102 – 105 Butler’s acquisition of, 63 – 64 Broughton, George, 29 – 30 , 141 – 142 location of, 6 Broughton, Sue, 29 – 30 , 141 – 142 slave auction on, 3 – 6 Brown, Henry Box, 51 – 52 Brown, John, 25 – 26 , 99 Cadwalader, George, 8 – 9 Bryan, Andrew, 9 – 10 Cadwalader, Henry, 8 – 9 Bryan, Joseph, 9 – 10 Calhoun, John, 99 Bull, John, 90 – 92 “Can Nightmares be Inherited?,” 170 – 171 burial grounds, 81 – 82 , 92 , 173 – 174 Capitalism and Slavery (Williams), 58 – 59 Butler, Betsy, 135 – 136 CARICOM slave reparations plan, 127 Butler, Bram, 29 – 30 , 119 – 123 , 137 – 139 , Carney, Judith, 61 – 63 141 – 142 , 149 – 151 Carr, Amanda, 23 – 24 © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-19305-5 — The Weeping Time Anne C. Bailey Index More Information 191 Index 191 Carson, Jacqueline Copeland, 24 – 25 contemporary race issues, history and Census of 1870, 134 memory and, 167 – 168 chattels, slaves as three- i fths of a person contraband slaves, during Civil War, 99 – 102 and, 37 – 40 coolie labor, Reconstruction era growth of, Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, 121 119 – 123 Christ Church (St. Simon’s Coolies and Cane: Race, Labor, and plantation), 83 – 85 Sugar in the Age of Emancipation Christianity (Ho- Jung), 123 contested memory of Civil War and, Copeland- Carson, Jacqueline, 169 – 170 163 – 164 Coptic Church, 86 – 89 Great Awakening movement and, 86 – 89 cotton cultivation, African agricultural names of slaves and inl uence of, 147 – 149 traditions in, 59 – 63 , 67 – 70 as shared by masters and slaves, 81 – 82 Cox, Betty Jean, 135 – 136 slavery and, 82 Cox, Henrietta Butler, 135 – 136 citizenship, freed slaves’ advocacy for, Cox, Leo James, 136 124 – 125 Cox, O. V., 135 – 136 Civil Rights Act of 1964, 167 – 168 Crittenden family, 103 Civil Rights movement, 43 – 45 , 149 – 151 Crittenden, John C., 103 heroes of, 164 – 165 culture of slavery, African culture and, 20 – 21 Civil War black agency and colored troops Davis, Jefferson, 120 – 121 in, 99 – 102 Dawley, Amelia, 72 – 74 contested memories of, 160 – 165 debts, slave auctions as payment of, 7 – 8 , family divisions and, 97 – 99 26 – 27 “Great Compromise” at the Declaration of Independence, 154 – 156 Constitutional Convention and, 43 – 45 slave- owning signers of, 37 – 40 impact on families of, 102 – 105 democratization of memory, 153 – 154 , military pensions for whites and blacks 174 – 175 after, 128 – 129 denial Civil War Round Tables, 173 – 174 importance of combating, 156 – 157 Clinton, Catherine, 20 memory and, 154 – 156 Coates, Ta- Nehisi, 153 – 154 Department of Indian Affairs, 43 – 45 colonialism Dickerson, Isaiah, 126 – 127 British involvement in slavery dirt eating, slave practice of, 30n5 and, 55 – 56 DNA technology rice cultivation and, 63 – 66 African American genealogical research The Colored Tennessean, 116 – 119 and, 22 – 23 colored troops, 145 – 146 ethnic identity in African Diaspora and, Compromise of 1877, 125 – 126 23 – 24 , 170 – 171 Confederate Memorial Literary double consciousness Society, 160 of black freedmen, 121 Confederate Museum, 160 contested memory and, 164 Confederate States of America, 97 – 98 Douglass, Charles, 119 Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), 21 Douglass, Frederick, 74 , 105 – 108 , 119 , Connerton, Paul, 158 – 159 128 – 129 , 159 – 160 , 161 – 163 Constitutional Convention, slavery com- Dubois, W. E. B., 73 – 74 , 144 – 145 , 161 – 163 promise in, 40 – 43 Dunmore Proclamation, 41 – 42 Constitution of the United States Dunmore’s Ethiopian Regiment, 41 – 42 development of, 41 – 42 Native Americans and, 43 – 45 economic conditions slaves as three- i fths of a person Civil War and role of, 98 – 99 under, 37 – 40 slavery and, 58 – 59 , 107 © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-19305-5 — The Weeping Time Anne C. Bailey Index More Information 192 192 Index education, freedmen’s pursuit of, 144 – 145 “freedom petitions,” in colonial America, 42 Emancipation Day, 162 – 163 Freedom Summer, 164 – 165 Emancipation Proclamation of 1863, Freeman, Sambo, 42 104 – 108 Fugitive Slave Law, 44 – 45 black migration following, 116 – 119 fugitive slaves, Civil War and increase one hundred i ftieth anniversary of, in, 97 – 99 154 – 156 funerals of slaves, 81 – 82 , 88 – 89 , 90 – 92 pension advocacy and, 126 – 127 text of, 107 – 108 Garrison, William Lloyd, 99 twentieth anniversary of, 161 – 163 gender division of labor, rice cultivation England and, 62 – 63 abolition of slave trade in, 55 – 56 , genealogy 94 – 95 African American interest in, 22 – 23 involvement in slave trade of, 55 – 56 Holmes’s research in, 133 – 137 Ethiopia, trading empire in, 86 – 89 General’s Island, 123 Genovese, Elizabeth Fox, 70 – 71 families. See also black families Gettysburg, Battle of, 104 – 105 Civil War impact on, 102 – 105 Ghana, African Diaspora and ethnic Fateful Lightning (Guelzo), 125 – 126 groups in, 23 – 24 Ferguson, Edward, 144 glaberima rice species, 62 Ferguson, Wiseman, 144 “Going Up to Atlanta” (McPherson), 121 , Ferguson, Wiseman Jr., 144 124 – 125 Ferguson family, 29 – 30 , 141 – 142 Gomez, Michael, 20 , 87 Ferry, Jules, 157 – 158 Gordon- Reed, Annette, 28 – 29 Field Order No.