Moral Contagion Michael A. Schoeppner Index More Information

Cambridge University Press 978-1-108-46999-9 — Moral Contagion Michael A. Schoeppner Index More Information

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Aberdeen, Earl of, 137, 166 , 189 , 194 Burrill, James, Jr., 49 and diplomatic abandonment of black Butler, Andrew, 178 , 186 citizenship, 166 and policy of local diplomacy, 144 Calder v. Deliesseline , 33 – 35 , 39 , 40, 52, 55 abolitionist mail campaign, 93 , 122 , Calder, James, 32 – 35 123 , 149 Calhoun, John C., 100, 103 , 160 Act of Emancipation, 66 , 93 , 95 , 168 Cambreleng, Churchill, 119 , 120 , 209 Adams, John Quincy, 35 , 43, 57 , 59 , 86 Canning, George, 36 Addington, Henry, 166 Canning, Stratford, 35 , 36 , 43 African Methodist Episcopal Church, 23 Carlisle, James Mandeville, 172 Anderson, Robert, 203 Carlyle, Thomas, 214 Caroliniensis, 47 , 50 , 53, 86 Baldwin, Roger S., 179 Challang, John, 203 Bancroft, George, 169 Charleston, 1 , 15, 22, 35 , 44 , 52 , 152 Bankhead, Charles, 83 , 84 , 93, 98 and 1843 amendment bill, 136 Barbour, Philip, 105 – 106 and abolitionist mail campaign, 99 – 100 Beale, Isaac, 198 and Amos Daley, 52 Bennett, Thomas, 20 , 21 and Caroliniensis debate, 46 – 50 Berrien, John, 82 , 84 – 85 , 91 , 106 , 188 and conditions in 1822, 17 – 19 , 29 Birney, James, 213 and Daniel Fraser arrest, 80 – 81 , 200 Board of Trade, 69, 72, 84 and divisiveness of fi rst Seamen Act, 62 Boston, 64 , 138 , 142 , 148 , 201 , 202 , 211 and the Higginson arrests, 127 and Cuban quarantine, 111 and the Hoar Affair, 151 – 155, 178 and free people of color, 145, 146 , and incorporation, 61 208 – 215 and John Jones beating, 132 and Samuel Hoar, 152 and the Maria , 16 – 17 and Walker’s Appeal , 63 , 64, 66 and the Means– Mathew correspondence, Briggs, George, 149 , 157 182 – 183 British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society, and Roberts v. Yates , 186 167 , 210 and the South Carolina Association, 38 Brooks, Preston, 154 and Vesey conspiracy, 23 – 25 Buchanan, James, 168, 169 , 173 , 192 Charleston Courier , 31 , 60 , 134 , 148 , 190 Bulwer, Henry, 171 – 173 , 184 Charleston Mercury , 18, 47 , 48 , 53 , 60 , 78 , Bunch, Robert, 191, 192 148, 183

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Cherokee Nation v. Georgia , 69 Commercial Convention of 1815, 40 , 43, 46 , Christmas rebellion. See Christmas revolt 70, 85, 167 Christmas revolt, 76 – 77 Commonwealth v. Aves , 143 citizenship, 8 – 11 Congress, 36 – 37 , 45 , 102 , 158 , 159 African- American demands for recognition and 1843 Reports, 144 , 146 of, 119, 138 , 206 – 212 and 1850 Compromise, 177 – 179 offi cial responses to, 212 – 214 and abolitionist mail campaign, 103 Afro-British claims of, 205 – 206 and Cuban quarantine, 118 – 120 Afro-British demands for recognition of, and Walker’s Appeal , 68 – 69 171 – 172 Cook, William, 202 Attorney General Taney’s theory of, 88 – 90 Cooper, Thomas, 41 British demands for recognition of black, 83 Courtenay, Edward, 52 , 55, 57, 62 British rights of, 47 , 48 , 82 , 127 – 128 , Crampton, John, 169 132 , 167 Crisis, The , 27 and Congress, 36 – 37, 144 , 178 – 179 Cuba, 18 , 94 , 107 – 122 , 207 and Convention of the Colored Citizens of Curtis, Benjamin R., 140 Massachusetts, 214 – 216 Cynosure, The , 202 and Corfi eld v. Coryell , 57 – 58 Cuban quarantine and African-American, Daley, Amos, 52 – 58 , 62 , 199 , 206 , 208 112 – 113, 118 Davis, John, 177 – 179 Cuban quarantine and British, 120 – 121 Deliesseline, Francis, 33 , 35 , 40 , 41 , 62 and Dred Scott v. Sandford , 195 – 196 Department of State, 9 , 12, 51, 66 , 83 , 94 , expanding power of, 123 108 , 123 , 168 – 169 , 173 , 174 Foreign Offi ce sacrifi ces Afro- British, 173, and Cuban quarantine, 111, 115 – 117 , 120 194 – 195 and Forster enslavement, 97 Free Soil Party’s recognition of and Jamaica, 95 African- American, 181 Dred Scott v. Sandford , 9 – 10 , 11 , 140 , 164 , Georgia rejection of African-American, 146 195 – 196 , 214 , 215 – 216 , 217 House Commerce Committee debates on, Due Process Clause, 218 139 – 144 Massachusetts recognition of Eaton, John, 117 African- American, 157 Elkison v. Deliesseline , 39 – 46 , 52 , 55 , 56 , 148 and Missouri crisis, 48 , 49 and Attorney General John M. in the postwar period, 217 – 218 Berrien, 84 – 85 Samuel Hoar and Massachusetts, 153 and Nullifi cation, 85 – 86 South Carolina rejects African-American, 154 reactions to, 46 – 50 State Department denials of African-American, and the South Carolina Association, 62 120 , 173 Elkison, Henry, 39 – 41, 43 , 46 , 47 , 62 , 205 . and State v. Daley , 57 – 58 See also Elkison v. Deliesseline the Susan King affair, 167 and citizenship, 47 – 49 Civil Rights Cases, The , 218 Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 150 – 151 Clarendon, Earl of, 120 , 189 – 191 Equal Protection Clause, 218 Clayton, John, 173 , 174 Colonial Offi ce, 77, 80 , 194 Fayetteville, 70 Colored American, The , 119 , 212 First of August, 150 , 214 , 215 comity, 57 , 156 , 159 , 161 Foreign Offi ce, 12 , 66 , 85 , 91, 103 , 123 , Commerce Clause, 6 , 45 , 46 , 52 , 85 , 91 , 188 , 195 . See also Aberdeen, Earl of ; 139 – 140 , 161 , 164 , 179 , 185 Canning, George ; Clarendon, Earl of ; dormancy, 55 Palmerston, Lord and Gibbons v. Ogden , 55 – 57 abandoning claims of black citizenship, 164, and the License Cases , 174 – 175 173 , 189, 194 and New York v. Miln , 104 – 106 and acquiescence to Seamen Acts, 136 – 137 , and the Passenger Cases , 175 – 177 166 – 167

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advocating for black citizenship, 83 – 84, Haitian revolution. See Haiti 167 – 168, 169 , 171 Hamilton, James, 19 – 22 , 86 Afro-Britons pressure, 171 – 172 Hamilton- Gordon, George. See Aberdeen, and African Americans, 210 , 214 Earl of and Cuban quarantine, 120 –122 Hammond, James Henry, 135, 136 , 149 , 151 , and dropping Roberts v. Yates , 190 – 191 152 , 154 and enslavement of William Forster, 97 Harrison, Robert Monroe, 95 – 96 initial response to North Carolina Havana. See Cuba quarantine, 71 – 72 Hayne, Isaac, 186 and legality of Georgia quarantine, 69– 70 Hayne, Robert Y., 29 , 62 , 86 and policy of local diplomacy, 137 , 138 , Higginson , 127 – 128, 131 – 132 160 , 163 – 164 , 165 – 166 , 173 Hoar, Elizabeth, 151, 152 , 153 , 155 and amendment of Georgia Seamen Act, 191 Hoar, Samuel, 126 , 149 – 153 , 154 – 155 , 156 , and amendment of Louisiana Seamen Act, 185 177 – 178 , 183 , 188 and amendment of South Carolina Holland, Edwin C., 24 Seamen Act, 193 Holmes, Isaac E., 41 , 62 , 86 origins of, 126 and Caroliniensis essays, 46 – 47, 49 – 50 and Seamen Act diplomacy in context of and Elkison v. Deliesseline , 41 emancipation, 79 – 80 and State v. Daley , 53 – 55 , 56 – 57 , 58 and slave trade to Cuba, 110 Howell, Jacob, 117 – 119 soliciting opinion from DC attorney, 172 Hubbard, Henry, 155 and test case after Gibbons v. Ogden , 57 Huger, Alfred, 193 Forster, William, 92 , 97 – 98 , 115 , 204 – 205 and abolitionist mail campaign, Forsyth, John 99 – 100, 102 as Secretary of State and State v. Daley , 54 – 55 regarding Cuban quarantine, 115 – 117, Huger, Daniel, 40 119 – 120 , 212 Hunt, Benjamin F., 87 , 136 , 147 – 148 regarding William Forster, 98 and Elkison v. Deliesseline , 41 – 43 , 46 , 47 as Senator, 68 Fourteenth Amendment, 9 , 141 , 216 , 217 – 218 impressment, 36 Fraser, Daniel, 80 – 81 , 82 , 128 , 200 Irving, John, 127 , 128 , 131 , 132 , 134 , 151 , 152 Frederick Douglass’ Paper , 192 , 208 , 210 Free Soil Party, 181 , 213 Jackson, Andrew, 82 , 102 , 111 Jamaica, 47 , 65 , 129 , 200 , 203 Gag Rule, 94 and Christmas revolt, 76 – 77 Garrison, William Lloyd, 99 and Robert Monroe Harrison, 95– 96 George Villiers. See Clarendon, Earl of Jefferson, Thomas, 29 Gibbons v. Ogden , 6 , 55 – 57 , 59 , 72 , 104 , 106 , 139 Jenner, Herbert, 83 Giddings, John, 158 Joel, John, 1 – 2 , 128 , 200 Gilchrist, Robert B., 186 Johnson, William, 29 – 30, 35, 39 , 53 , 59 , Gilmer, George, 67 – 69 63, 148 Glasgow, John, 192, 204 and Caroliniensis essays, 48 – 49 Green, Duff, 96 and Denmark Vesey, 21 Grier, Robert, 176 and Elkison v. Deliesseline , 43 – 46 Grigg, Robert, 203 and Gibbons v. Ogden , 55 – 56 and the South Carolina Association, 62 habeas corpus, 43 , 62 , 82 , 171 , 187 Jones, John, 132 – 134 as a right of citizenship, 58 South Carolina statute limiting, 154 Kendall, Amos, 102 Haiti, 14 , 24 , 29 , 107 , 110 . See also Saint Key West, 92, 97 Domingue and Denmark Vesey, 22 – 23 Legaré, Hugh, 81 Haitian revolution, 15 – 16 , 28 Legaré, Hugh S., 86 – 87

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Liberator , 76 , 138 , 149, 157 New Providence, 96 Liberty Party, 213 New York v. Miln , 6 – 7 , 104 – 107 , 122 , 141 License Cases , 6 , 164, 174 – 175 foreshadowing of, 85 Liverpool, 39, 80, 127 , 128 , 199 and the License Cases, 174 Livingston, Edward, 82 – 83 , 84 , 85 , 168 and the Passenger Cases, 175 and Story’s Commentaries on the Confl ict McCready, Edward, 52 , 55 , 57 , 62 of Laws , 116 McLean, Charles, 166 – 167 , 204 North Star , 180 , 210 McLean, John, 175 Nullifi cation, 85 – 87 McRee, John, 32 – 33 and the abolitionist mail campaign, 100 Madden, R.B., 108 – 110 and Britain’s Act of Emancipation, 93 –94 Manning, John, 191 Marshall, John, 39 , 50, 72, 104 Ogilby, William, 144 and Gibbons v. Ogden , 55 – 56 and citizenship, 130 – 132 Martin, William, 202 and Daniel Fraser arrest, 80 –82 , 128 Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society, and diplomatic strategy, 152 , 165 147 – 149, 156 and John Joel arrest, 128 – 129 Massachusetts General Court, 145, 146 , and John Jones beating, 132 , 133 150 , 158 and Samuel Hoar, 126 – 127 , 152 and Samuel Hoar’s expulsion from and Seamen Act amendment, 125 – 126 , Charleston, 156 – 157 134 – 136 , 137 , 159 Mathew, George, 181, 182 – 183 , 184 , 186 , and the Higginson crew, 127 – 128 187 – 188 , 190 Otis, Harrison, 66 Means, John, 182 , 183 , 188 Owen, John, 70 Mobile, 2 , 101 , 169 – 170 and sexual assault of Mary Roberts, 162 – 163 Pakenham, Richard, 137, 159 , 160 , 168 Moodie, Benjamin, 39 and diplomatic strategy, 165 – 166 moral contagion, 1 – 2, 3 – 6, 72, 74 , 133 , Palmerston, Lord, 80 , 92, 108 , 171 , 181 , 189 , 141 – 142 , 165 , 173 , 194 , 218 – 220 191, 192 and Elkison v. Deliesseline , 42 and African Americans, 214 – 215 and New York v. Miln , 105 – 107 and British racial progressivism, 83 – 84 moral pestilence, 4 , 7 , 42 , 98 , 106, 121 . and changes in British racial politics, See also moral contagion 194 – 195 Morril, David L., 49 response to Mary Roberts, 169 Morton, Marcus, 147 – 149 and reversal of Conservatives’ policy of Moulton, Frances, 129 , 167 , 200 noninterference, 167 – 168 Mure, William, 129 , 170 – 171 , 185 , 191 , 197 and turn to local diplomacy, 173 – 174 and turn to localized diplomacy, 182 Nassau, 97 , 199 Parliament, 93 , 123 , 166 , 173 National Anti-Slavery Standard , 180 , 210 and emancipation, 92 – 93 Nell, William C., 145 , 146 , 210 – 212 and reaction to Christmas Revolt, 77 and black veterans, 207 – 208 Pascal, Francis, 205 and Convention of Colored Citizens of Passenger Cases, The , 6 , 164 , 172 , Massachusetts, 214 – 216 175 – 177 , 181 New Bern, 70, 75 and British diplomacy, 184 New Orleans, 2 , 147 , 148 – 149 , 198, 199 and litigation in South Carolina, 183 and amended Louisiana Seamen Act, 185 debates in 1850 Congress, 177 and antislavery press, 180 – 181 Pereira, Manuel, 187 , 188 , 200 enforcement of Seamen Act, 170– 171 . Peshall, Charles, 71 – 72 , 73 , 74 , 79 , 83 See also Appendix Petigru, James L., 87, 183 , 189 and Frances Moulton, 129 and Elkison v. Deliesseline , 40 – 41 and Henry Hubbard, 155 – 156 and litigating for British Foreign Offi ce, sailor experiences in, 201 – 204 186 – 187

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Pinckney, Thomas, 24 – 25 Scoble, John, 167 and the South Carolina Association, 31 Shaw, Lemuel, 143, 149 Plessy v. Ferguson , 218 Slaughterhouse Cases , 218 police power, 6 , 72 , 94 , 120 , 141 . See New Smith, William, 48 York v. Miln South Carolina Association, 31 – 32, 38 – 39 , 47 , and Attorney General John Berrien, 84 – 85 57 , 60 , 62 , 135 and the Passenger Cases , 176 and British consul in Charleston, 160 popular constitutionalism, 38 – 39 and early modifi cation of South Carolina Powell, William, 203 , 207 , 210 , 212 Seamen Act, 51 Prigg v. Pennsylvania , 146 and Elkison v. Deliesseline , 41 Privileges and Immunities Clause, 9, 103 , 139 , and executive discretion, 130 143 , 157 , 213 expansion and incorporation of, 60 –61 as basis for national citizenship rights, 10 , 90 and John Jones beating, 133 as claimed by African Americans, 206 , and Nullifi cation, 86 208 , 211 and popular constitutionalism, 38 and State v. Daley , 57 – 58 and State v. Daley , 53 – 54 and Dred Scott v. Sandford , 196 , 215 State Department. See Department of State and inapplicability to African State v. Daley , 52 – 59 . See Daley, Amos Americans, 89 – 90 Steedman, Jonathan, 80 – 81 , 128 and Massachusetts General Court, 157 Stephen, James, 70 and the Missouri crisis, 37 Story, Joseph, 56 , 116 and Taney’s historicism, 89 – 90 Strange, Robert, 72 – 74 Puerto Rico, 107 Tacón y Rosique, Don Miguel, 108 – 111, 112 , quarantine, 87 113 , 114 – 115 , 116 – 117 and analogies to Negro Seamen Acts, and his removal from power in Cuba, 122 45 , 133 Taney, Roger B., 10 in British government, 69 – 70 and 1832 attorney general opinion as and Georgia Seamen Act, 67 –68 precursor to Dred Scott , 164 and Gibbons v. Ogden , 55 attorney general opinion on Seamen and North Carolina Seamen Act, 71 Acts, 87 – 90 and State v. Daley , 56 and Dred Scott v. Sandford , 195 – 196 and State v. Wm. Prudden , 72 and Georgia’s adoption of his theory of citizenship, 146 Rayner, Kenneth, 142 – 143 and New York v. Miln , 106 Read, John Harleston, 192 , 193 and responses to Dred Scott v. Sandford , Ritchie, Thomas, 96 214 , 215 Roberts v. Yates , 186 , 191 , 193 and the Passenger Cases , 176 Foreign Offi ce abandonment of, 189 – 190 and his theory of citizenship, 87 – 90 Roberts, Benjamin, 211 , 212 Tappan, Arthur, 99 , 101 Roberts, John, 201 , 202 Tappan, Lewis, 98 , 179 Roberts, Mary, 162 , 163 , 169 , 178 , 203 Temple, Henry John. See Palmerston, Lord Roberts, Reuben, 186 Tenth Amendment, 43 , 72 , 85 , 87 , 91 , 104 Roger Taney Thomas, John, 200 and South Carolina’s adoption of his theory Thompson, Smith, 105 of citizenship, 154 Toleration Laws, 66 , 78, 88, 89 , 168 Romney, HMS, 110 Tolliver, George, 198 Russell, John, 190 Trist, Nicholas P., 111 – 119 , 199 Turnbull, Robert, 27, 86 Saint Domingue, 15 – 17 , 23 , 29. See also Haiti and Caroliniensis essays, 47 –48 , 49 – 50 Savannah, 2, 69 , 184 , 191 , 199 , 204 and the South Carolina Association, 31 and Walker’s Appeal , 66 – 68 as witness in State v. Daley , 54 Schenley, Edward, 108 Turner, Nat, 3 , 65 , 74 , 76

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Van Buren, Martin, 82 , 148 , 168 and the Bahamian arrests, 71 – 72 as Secretary of State, 82 municipal ordinance against black Vaughn, Charles, 80 , 81 – 83 sailors, 74 Vesey, Denmark, 3 , 20 , 22 – 24, 28 – 29 , 65 and the Susan King affair, 166 – 167 and Walker’s Appeal , 70 Waddell, Hope, 129, 167 , 200 Wilson, George, 207 Waddell, John, 96 – 97 Wilson, Harris, 119 Walker, David, 64 , 66 . See Walker’s Appeal Wilson, John L., 59 Walker’s Appeal , 64 – 65 , 68 , 76 Winthrop, Robert and the Cherokee Cases , 69 and 1850 Senate debates, 178– 179 in North Carolina, 70 – 71 and House Commerce Committee reports in Savannah, 66 – 68 on constitutionality of Seamen Acts, Washington, Bushrod, 57 139 – 142 Wayne, James, 176 Wirt, William, 50, 57 Webster, Daniel, 183 , 184 Woodbury, Levi, 176 and Gibbons v. Ogden , 55 Worcester v. Georgia , 69 Weeden, Benjamin, 210 , 211 Williams, William, 66 – 68 Yates, Jeremiah, 188 . See also Roberts v. Yates Wilmington, 2 , 73 , 205 and arrest of Reuben Roberts, 186