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Tutsis

Tyler, John,
4.1
,
11.1

Tyson, Edward

Uganda

Ulster

Uncle Tom’s Cabin
(Stowe),
4.1
,
8.1
,
9.1
,
9.2
,
10.1
,
11.1

Underground Railroad,
9.1
,
9.2
,
9.3
,
9.4
,
10.1

blacks as organizers of

Underground Railroad, The
(Sieburt)

Underground Railroad and Freedom Center

Unitarians

United Nations,
11.1
,
epi.1

United States

British pressure for emancipation in

free black population growth in

Haitian Revolution celebrated in

Haiti quarantined by

Muslim stereotypes of blacks and

population growth in

slave population growth in

West Indies as focus of

United States Telegraph

Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA),
3.1
,
5.1
,
5.2
,
nts.1

Upper Guinea

Upper Mesopotamia

Upshur, Abel

urban frontier

urbanization

Utah

“Utopia” (More)

Vai

Van Buren, Martin

Vandine, Charlotte

Vastey, Pompée Valentin

Venezuela

Vermont,
2.1
,
6.1
,
7.1
,
7.2

slavery outlawed in,
9.1
,
epi.1
,
nts.1

Vesey, Denmark,
2.1
,
2.2
,
6.1
,
8.1
,
8.2
,
9.1
,
10.1
,
nts.1

Vicksburg, Battle of

Victoria, Queen of Britain

vigilance committees,
9.1
,
9.2
,
9.3
,
9.4
,
nts.1

Vincent, Henry

Virginia,
itr.1
,
1.1
,
3.1
,
6.1
,
6.2
,
6.3
,
9.1
,
9.2
,
epi.1

Americo-Liberians from

debate on emancipation and deportation in,
7.1
,
8.1

free blacks in

growth of black population in

manumission banned in

runaway slaves from

slave conspiracies and revolts in,
itr.1
,
2.1
,
7.1
,
8.1
,
8.2
,
9.1
,
10.1
,
nts.1

Virginia Argus

Virginia Company

Virgin Islands

Vital, David

Volney, Comte de

Voltaire,
1.1
,
nts.1

voting rights,
2.1
,
2.2
,
6.1
,
11.1
,
11.2
,
11.3

wage slavery,
prf.1
,
11.1
,
11.2
,
11.3
,
11.4
,
epi.1

Walker, David,
2.1
,
6.1
,
7.1
,
7.2
,
7.3
,
7.4
,
8.1
,
8.2
,
8.3
,
9.1
,
11.1
,
11.2
,
11.3
,
epi.1
,
nts.1
,
nts.2

on animalization,
prf.1
,
8.1
,
8.2
,
8.3

colonization movement opposed by

death of

Haiti as influence on

Walker, William,
epi.1
,
epi.2

Walzer, Michael,
3.1
,
3.2

Ward, J. R.

Ward, Samuel Ringgold,
4.1
,
11.1
,
11.2

War Department, U.S.

Wardlaw, Ralph,
10.1
,
10.2

Ward Societies

Warner, Robert A.

War of 1812,
7.1
,
11.1
,
epi.1

blacks in,
prf.1
,
7.1

Washington, Booker T.,
5.1
,
5.2

Washington, Bushrod

Washington, D.C.,
8.1
,
8.2
,
9.1

abolition of slavery in

Washington, George,
2.1
,
2.2

Washington, Madison

Water-Cure Hospital

Watkins, William,
7.1
,
7.2

Watson, J. L.

Weber, Benjamin David

Webster, Daniel,
9.1
,
10.1

Wedderburn, Robert

Wedgwood, Josiah,
2.1
,
nts.1

Weekly Anglo-African

Weizsäcker, Ernst von

Weld, Theodore Dwight,
itr.1
,
itr.2
,
6.1
,
10.1
,
10.2
,
11.1
,
nts.1
,
nts.2
,
nts.3

West Africans

West India

West India Bank

West India Question, The: Immediate Emancipation Safe and Practical
(Stuart)

West Indies,
2.1
,
2.2
,
2.3
,
6.1
,
8.1
,
10.1
,
10.2
,
10.3
,
10.4
,
10.5
,
11.1
,
11.2
,
11.3
,
epi.1
,
nts.1
,
nts.2

black refugees from

West Virginia,
epi.1
,
epi.2

Wheatley, Phillis

Whig Party, British,
10.1
,
10.2

White, Charles,
1.1
,
nts.1

White Over Black
(Jordan)

White Slaves of England, The
(Cobden)

Whitfield, James M.

Whitman, Walt

Wilberforce, William,
6.1
,
6.2
,
6.3
,
7.1
,
10.1
,
10.2
,
10.3
,
10.4
,
10.5
,
11.1
,
11.2
,
11.3
,
nts.1

Wilberforce Colony

Wilkeson, Samuel

Williams, Eric

Williams, Peter

Williamson, Adam,
2.1
,
2.2

Willis, Cornelia Grinell

Willis, Mary Stace

Willis family

Wilmington, N.C.,
8.1
,
8.2

Winch, Julie

Windward Islands

Winthrop, John,
2.1
,
3.1
,
4.1

Wisconsin Supreme Court

women

as abolitionists,
8.1
,
8.2

as slaves

Woodson, Grandville B.

Woodson, Lewis

Woolman, John

Worcester, Samuel

Works Progress Administration (WPA),
itr.1
,
11.1

World Antislavery Conventions,
11.1
,
11.2

World on Fire, A: Britain’s Crucial Role in the American Civil War
(Foreman)

World War I

World War II

Wounded Knee

Wright, Elizur,
6.1
,
8.1

Wright, Henry Clarke

Wright, Theodore S.,
7.1
,
7.2
,
8.1
,
8.2

xenophobia

Xenophon

Yancy, Allen

Yellin, Jean Fagan,
9.1
,
9.2
,
nts.1

yellow fever,
2.1
,
2.2
,
5.1

Yorktown, Battle of

Young, Edward

Young Ladies Domestic Seminary

Zanj,
1.1
,
1.2

zebras

Zeppie, Dwallah

Zionism,
5.1
,
5.2
,
5.3
,
nts.1
,
nts.2

A NOTE ABOUT THE AUTHOR

D
AVID
B
RION
D
AVIS
is Sterling Professor of History Emeritus at Yale University, and founder and Director Emeritus of Yale’s Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition. He has written and edited sixteen books, the most recent of which was
Inhuman Bondage: The Rise and Fall of Slavery in the New World.
He is also a frequent contributor to
The New York Review of Books.
He lives outside New Haven, Connecticut.

ALSO BY DAVID BRION DAVIS

Inhuman Bondage:
The Rise and Fall of Slavery in the New World

Challenging the Boundaries of Slavery

In the Image of God:
Religion, Moral Values and Our Heritage of Slavery

From Homicide to Slavery:
Studies in American Culture

Revolutions: Reflections on American Equality and Foreign Liberations

Slavery and Human Progress

The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Revolution, 1770–1823

The Slave Power Conspiracy and the Paranoid Style

The Problem of Slavery in Western Culture

Homicide in American Fiction, 1789–1859:
A Study in Social Values

The Great Republic, Part Three:
Expanding the Republic, 1820–1860
(coauthor)

The Antislavery Debate
(coauthor)

Ante-Bellum Reform
(editor)

Antebellum American Culture:
An Interpretive Anthology
(editor)

The Fear of Conspiracy: Images of Un-American
Subversion from the Revolution to the Present
(editor)

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