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Gender and Race in Antebellum Popular Culture Sarah N Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-04368-8 - Gender and Race in Antebellum Popular Culture Sarah N. Roth Index More information Index abolitionists, 83 , 116–118 , 208 with light skin, 92–94 , 130 , 195 , 200–202 and self-defensive violence, 208 committing suicide, 200–202 , 204 abolitionists, images of, 146–148 African American protests African American children, images of, 32 against racist imagery, 291–292 African American men, images of, 197 African American women, images of, as animals, 53–57 , 63–64 , 71 , 73 , 78 , 168 190–191 , 197 , 273 , 291 absence of, 276 as children, 29–31 , 120–121 , 291 committing suicide, 299 and command of physical space, as heroines, 298–299 225–228 , 230 as mammies, 31–32 , 290 as elderly, 196–197 , 243 , 261–262 as victims, 79–80 , 95–98 , 213 , 215–216 , as heroes, 74–78 , 84–87 , 130 , 211 , 217 , 218–219 , 228 212–213 , 214 , 216–217 , 220–222 , Alcott, Louisa May, 33n31 225–229 , 252–253 , 259–260 , 261 , “The Brothers” (1863), 264–269 263 , 264 , 271–274 , 276 , 291 , 294 , “Am I Not a Man and a Brother?”, 295 , 297–298 116–117 , 117 as humble servants, 17–18 , 129 , 153 , “Am I Not a Woman and a Sister?”, 290–291 279–280 , 280 as martyrs, 111–120 , 154–158 , 245 , Anthony, Susan B., 286–287 247–248 , 249–250 , 252 , 256 , anti-abolitionist authors, 39 , 42 , 53–64 262–263 , 271 , 277 , 294 Antioch College, 174 as non-violent, 87–89 , 95 , 150 anti-Tom novels, 15 , 141–165 as physically fl awed, 262 , Atlantic Monthly , 210 265–266 , 269 as savages, 4 , 18–19 , 33–37 , 38–43 , Ball, Charles 44–46 , 50–62 , 72–73 , 112–113 , Slavery in the United States (1836), 150–151 , 167 , 230–231 , 288 , 52–53 , 86 , 87 290–291 Baym, Nina, 126n41 , 131 , 131n54 and sexuality, 70 Beecher, Catharine as soldiers, 4–5 , 7–8 , 247 , 249 , 254 , 260 , A Treatise on Domestic Economy 276–277 (1841), 163 as traitors to their race, 294 , 296–297 Beecher, Catharine and Harriet Beecher Stowe as victims, 80 , 81–83 , 167 , 197–200 , The American Woman’s Home (1869), 214–215 163–164 315 © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-04368-8 - Gender and Race in Antebellum Popular Culture Sarah N. Roth Index More information 316 Index Behn, Aphra Civil War, 245 , 247 , 249 , 276 Oroonoko (1688), 18 , 19 , 111–113 , 116 Clarke, Lewis, 78 , 101n45 Bibb, Henry Clarke, Milton, 92 Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Clarke, Lewis and Milton Henry Bibb (1849), 81 , 83 , 86–87 , Narratives of the Sufferings of Lewis 88 , 90 , 95 , 98 and Milton Clarke (1846), 82 , 93 , Bigelow, Harriet Hamline 94 , 99 The Curse Entailed (1857), 184 , 186 , Clay, Edward W., 2n1 , 54–55n33 197–198 “An Amalgamation Waltz” (1839), 2 Bird, Robert Montgomery, 47 , 60n49 “Johnny Q, Introducing the Haytien Sheppard Lee (1836), 47 , 60–61 , 63 , 68 Ambassador to the Ladies of Lynn, Birth of a Nation (1915), 288 , 294 Mass” (1839), 65 , 69 Black, Leonard, 79 , 101n45 Practical Amalgamation series (1839), 1 , The Life and Sufferings of Leonard 2n1 , 54–55 , 69–71 Black (1847), 88 , 100 Collins, John, 78 , 80 , 83 Bledsoe, Albert Taylor, 11 Creole slave ship revolt, 210 Boston Chronotype , 79 Cummins, Maria Boucicault, Dion, 180n22 The Lamplighter (1854), 107n6 The Octoroon (1859), 170 , 180 Brown, Henry “Box”, 79 Delany, Martin, 208 , 215n13 Narrative of Henry Box Brown (1848), Blake (1859), 215–218 , 215n14 , 220 , 78 , 87 , 91 , 95 , 97 222–223 , 233 , 244 Brown, William Wells, 208 Dixon, Thomas The Black Man (1863), 210 The Clansman (1906), 287 Clotelle domestic fi ction, 49 , 109 , 141 A Tale of the Southern States (1864), Dorsey, Bruce, 23 180–183 Douglas, Ann, 126n41 Clotelle (1864), 220–221 , 220n32 , Douglass, Frederick, 80 , 82 , 83–84 , 208 , 229–231 , 239–240 , 244 245 , 286 , 294 , 295 Clotelle (1867), 276–278 , 279 , “The Heroic Slave” (1853), 210 , 218– 281–283 219 , 218n23 , 221–222 , 224–228 , Narrative of William Wells Brown 244–245 (1847), 78 , 90 , 96–97 Narrative of the Life of Frederick The Negro in the American Rebellion Douglass (1845), 78 , 84 , 86 , 88–89 , (1867), 278–279 92 , 93 , 96 , 98 , 99 , 100–101 St. Domingo (1855), 210 as a proponent of women’s rights, 219 Browne, Martha Griffi th. see Griffi th, Drysdale, Isabel Martha Scenes from Georgia (1827), 31 Burns, Anthony, 156 DuBois, W.E.B., 249 , 293 , 294 Child, Lydia Maria, 34n32 , 45n9 , 49 Eastman, Mary Henderson “Jumbo and Zairee,” 28–29 Aunt Phillis’s Cabin (1852), 142 , The Juvenile Miscellany , 28n24 148 , 155 “The Quadroons” (1842), 175–176 Edgeworth, Maria, 22n9 , 23n12 , 34 “Slavery’s Pleasant Homes” (1843), “The Grateful Negro,” 22–23 , 176–177 26–27 , 35–36 “The St. Domingo Orphans” Edwards, Bryan, 22n9 (1830), 44–47 The Emancipator , 117 children’s literature, 17 , 19–37 Ephraim Peabody, 79 Christian Examiner , 80 Equiano, Olaudah Christophe, Henri, 210 The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Cinque, 210 Olaudah Equiano , 19 © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-04368-8 - Gender and Race in Antebellum Popular Culture Sarah N. Roth Index More information Index 317 Farrar, Eliza, 22n9 , 23n12 , 34 Hildreth, Richard, 51n26 The Adventures of Congo , 22 , 23 , The Slave, or the Memoirs of Archy 24–26 , 30–31 , 34–35 Moore (1836), 49 , 51–52 , 66–67 , Female Anti-Slavery Society of Lynn, 80–81 , 93 , 175 , 199 Massachusetts, 69 The White Slave (1852), 177–179 , Fifteenth Amendment, 285 , 286 199–200 Flanders, Mrs. G.M. Holgate, Jerome B., 64n59 The Ebony Idol (1860), 151 Sojourn in the City of Amalgamation Follen, Eliza, 22n9 (1835), 63–64 , 67–68 Fugitive Slave Act of 1850, 208 Holmes, Mary J. Fugitive Slave Law, 156 Tempest and Sunshine (1854), 155 Garner, Margaret, 187 , 189 “Horrid Massacre in Virginia” (1831), Garrison, William Lloyd, 28 , 49 , 70 , 78 , 3 , 4 , 5 88 , 130 Horton, James and Lois, 119 Godey’s Ladies’ Book , 120 Hosmer, Hezekiah L. Graham, Sylvester, 70 Adela, the Octoroon (1861), 250–254 Grandy, Moses Huggins, Willis N., 293 Narrative of the Life of Moses Grandy (1844), 83 , 86 , 91 , 95 , 96 infanticide, 187 , 188 , 189 , 190 Gray, Thomas Ingraham, Joseph Holt, 53–54n30 The Confessions of Nat Turner (1831), Lafi tte (1836), 48–49 , 53–54 , 58–59 113–116 , 228 interracial fi ctional characters, 12–14 Greven, David, 48n16 interracial marriage, 63–64 , 65 , 68 , 69 Griffi th, Martha, 184n32 , 186 interracial sex, 65 , 69–70 , 72 , 123 , Autobiography of a Female Slave (1857), 202–204 184 , 185–186 , 202–204 interracial society, 239–240 Grimké, Angelina, 69 , 81 Grimké, Sarah, 69 , 81 , 116 Jacobs, Harriet Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl Haitian Revolution, 34 , 44 , 59 , 65 (1861), 192–195 Hale, Sarah Josepha, 33n31 Jefferson, Thomas Liberia (1853), 148–149 , 157 Notes on the State of Virginia Hall, Baynard Rush (1787), 18–19 Frank Freeman’s Barber Shop Jolliffe, John, 184n32 (1852), 147 , 148 , 149 , 151 , Chattanooga (1858), 168 , 184 , 187 , 152–153 190–192 Harlan, Mary B. Jordan, Winthrop, 63 Ellen (1855), 169 , 170 , 196 , 200–202 Harper and Brothers, 48 Kelley, Abby, 286 Harris, Joel Chandler, 8 , 287 Harrold, Stanley, 42n1 The Lady’s Token , 120 Hayden, William Lane, Lunsford Narrative of William Hayden (1846), The Narrative of Lunsford Lane 89 , 92 (1842), 85 Henson, Josiah, 93 Lewis, Jan , 188 The Life of Josiah Henson (1849), 83 , The Literary World , 107 85–86 , 89–91 , 94 Little Eva Hentz, Caroline Lee with Uncle Tom, 122–129 , 124 , 128 The Planter’s Northern Bride (1854), Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, 106 146–147 , 150–152 , 153 Louverture, Toussaint, 210 Higginson, Thomas Wentworth, 208 , 210 Lystra, Karen, 127 © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-04368-8 - Gender and Race in Antebellum Popular Culture Sarah N. Roth Index More information 318 Index MacCann, Donnarae, 34 Page, J.W. manliness, 8n7 , 23–24 Uncle Robin, in His Cabin in Virginia changing views of among (1853), 155 , 158 , 162 , 164 whites, 47–48 Peterson, Charles Jacobs Mathews, Theodore The Cabin and Parlor (1852), 153–154 , Old Toney and His Master (1860), 158 , 160–161 , 162–163 154–155 Philips, Wendell, 210 Matlack, Lucius C., 81 , 85 Pike, Mary Hayden Green McIntosh, Maria Caste (1856), 197 The Lofty and the Lowly (1853), 161 Ida May (1854), 170 , 174 , 197 , 198–199 McKay, Claude, 293 Placido, 210 Melville, Herman, 208 , 234n71 Poe, Edgar Allan, 47 “Benito Cereno” (1855), 234–239 , “The Murders in the Rue Morgue” 234n70 , 244 (1841), 55–57 , 55n36 , 71–72 Micheaux, Oscar, 293 The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym at Within Our Gates (1920), 293–295 Nantucket (1838), 61–62 Mitchell, Margaret proslavery authors, 39 , 42 Gone with the Wind (1936), 288–291 Provincial Freeman (Toronto), 207 M’Keehan, Hattia, 184n32 Purvis, Robert, 286 Liberty or Death! (1856), 184 , 187–190 motherhood, nineteenth-century Rael, Patrick, 77n1 , 103 conceptions of, 188 rape Mr. Frank, the Underground Mail-Agent of enslaved women by white men, (1853), 161 176–177 , 178 , 180 , 185 , 186 , 188 , 194 , 212 , 216 , 250 Nat Turner’s rebellion, 38–39 , 210 of white women by black men, 42 , 63 , depictions of, 3–4 , 50–51 , 65 , 66 , 64–65 , 72 , 288 , 290 113–116 rape, symbolic impact on whites, 47 , 50 of white men, 237–238 National Anti-Slavery Standard , 106 readership, white female, 3 , 6–7 , 79 , 109 , National Woman Suffrage Convention 110 , 122 , 125 , 126 , 127 , 137–138 , (Washington, D.C., 1869), 286 141 , 146 , 169 , 173 , 176 , 183 , 201 , National Women’s Rights Convention 202 , 203 , 205 , 282–283 (Salem, Ohio, 1850), 174 readership, white male, 3 , 48 , 49–50 , 68 , Nell, William Cooper, 208 182–183 , 219 , 234 , 235 , 283 The Colored Patriots of the American Rigaud, Andre, 210 Revolution (1855), 210 “romantic racialist” ideology, 121 New York Independent , 107 Roper, Moses Narrative of the Adventures and Escape Oberlin College, 174 of Moses Roper (1848), 78 octoroon narratives, 164–165 , 166–206 , Rosenthal, Max 250–254 “Proclamation of Emancipation” octoroon women, images of, 14 , 131–136 , (1865), 280–281 , 282 168–170 Rush, Caroline E.
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