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Abolitionists
Adultery. See also Morality
Advertisements
African American: benevolent associations; employment; entrepreneurs; inheritances; kinship; motherhood; real estate; slaveholders
Alabama, early settlement of. See also Huntsville
Alsop, Joseph
Arkansas
Armfield, John
Auction block
Ballard, Ann
Ballard, Charlotte
Ballard, Ella
Ballard, James
Ballard, Louise C.: birth family; dream; illness; letters to her husband; second marriage
Ballard, Rice C.: birth family; death; as domestic slave trader; donation to orphanage; early life in Virginia; financial and emotional investment in African Americans; manumission of enslaved people; personality; as planter; portrait; purchases; travels. See also Ballard, Louise; Franklin, Isaac; White, Avenia
Baltimore
Barbers. See also African American employment
“Black laws”. See also Cincinnati
Bibb, Nellie. See also Cabaniss, Septimus; Caldwell, Nettie
Births: enslaved women; postbellum African American women; white women
Blanton, Catherine
Boarding schools
Bondswomen. See Enslaved women and girls
Boyd, Samuel S.
Breeding: African American women, in; slave
British: muse; ruling; society; travelers; writers. See also “Tragic mulatto”
Brooklyn, New York. See also New York
Brothel. See also Prostitution
Brown, William Wells
Browning, Orville H.. See also “Fancy girls”
Bruster, Frances M.
Bucktown. See also Cincinnati
Cabaniss, Septimus, D.; as Confederate politician; freedpeople’s challenges to; manumitting enslaved people with white men’s aid
Cabaniss Roberts, Frances. See also Townsends
Caldwell, Nettie
Canada, escape to; African American settlement in
Caribbean: free people of color entrepreneurship in; free people of color population in; interracial unions; prostitution in; slavery in
Census; problems with
Chadick, W.D. See also Ministers
Charleston, SC
Chesnut, Mary. See also Diary; “Fancy Girl”
Chicago
Children: fugitives; mixed race; naming white; mixed race of white men; stolen
Chinn, Julia
Cincinnati: black migration to. industry; job competition; racism
Cities: commercial sex in; foreign immigrants in; growth in; moving with anonymity in; racemixing in; significance of port
Civil War
Class division: among African Americans; among enslaved people; complicating
Clay, Henry
Clay Jr., Clement Claiborne
Coffin, Levi
Colorado
Conversations: difficulties involving America’s racial past; ethics of scholarly research; post-racial; between white men and African Americans
“Cook, Mr.”. See also Picquet, Louisa; Planters
Cotton
Creole. See also Mixed race
“Cult of domesticity”
Daguerreotype
Dark-skinned, African American women; complexities of; enslaved children; preference for; and privilege; terminology in this book
Delia. See also Ballard, Louise; Ballard, Rice C.
Democrats
Diary
Dickson, Amanda
Dickson, David
Dickson, Julia Frances
Discrimination. See African American, employment; Housing; Job competition
Disposition: of African American men and boys; of African American women and girls
Divorce
Douglas, Stephen A.
Economy. See also Panic of 1837
Education
Emancipation. See Freedom; Petitions
Emotions, as a historical problem
English, the
Enslaved women and girls: Doll; Lucindy; Lucy; Virginia. See also Picquet, Louisa; White, Avenia
Evidence: as indicator of racial ancestry; as a research problem
Family: love of; moral stability of; respectability of
Fair-skin; costs of; in imagined works; perceived advantages of. See also “Passing”
“favor,” bestowed upon enslaved and freed people
Familiarity, between African Americans and whites
“Fancy girls”; on auction block; domestic slave traders and; history of. See also Advertisements; Auction block; Maids
Fathers: African Americans’ acknowledgment of; and educational outlay; and social capital; and secrecy; and young southern women; historical significance of white. See also Family
Fiction
Fletcher, Calvin
Franklin, Isaac
Franklin, James
Free people of color
Freedmen’s Bureau
Freedom; ambiguities of; anxieties of; requests for; secrecy and. See also Manumission
French; parents of mixed race children; prostitutes
Frontier: southwestern; western. See also Cincinnati
Fugitives
Genealogy, interest in
Georgetown, Colorado; founding of
Georgia. See also Tucker, Lucile
Germans and African Americans; as immigrants
Gossip: and African Americans; and white men. See also Intraracial conflict
Hill, Dennis
“Hired out”. See also African American; Employment; Job competition Hopkins, Helene
Hopkins, Pauline
Horton, Albert Clinton
Housing, African Americans and; cost of in Cincinnati
Huntsville, Alabama; founding of
Illinois
In The Heat of the Night
Individualism
Infidelity. See also Adultery
Inheritance
Interracial: laws; marriages
Intimacy: defining; difficulties in discussing; fostering. See also Resistance; Sex
Intraracial conflict: difficulties in discussing; between African Americans, ; between whites. See also Abolitionists; Gossip
Irish: immigrants; mob attacks involving; perceptions of
Iron Chest Company. See also African American, entrepreneurs
Jacobs, Harriet. See also Picquet, Louisa
Jackson, Andrew
January, Mary. See also Gossip; Intraracial conflict
Job competition. See also African American, employment
Kansas; African American migration to; racial discrimination in
“Kept woman”. See also “Fancy girls”; “Favor”
Kentucky; early settlement in; and slavery
King, Ada Coleman. See also King, Clarence
King, Clarence; “passing” as African American. See also “Passing”
Laveau, Marie
Laws; and ensuring future of African Americans; against black settlement; governing emotions; against interracial unions; Jim Crow; limits of; marriage; strategic use of. See also “Black laws”
Letters: from domestic slave traders; from people of African descent; problems with; from white men to African Americans; from white men about African American women and children. See also Evidence
Leverage, African Americans’
Lexington, Kentucky
Little Africa
Louisiana; African American “mistresses” in; free people of color in; French; miscegenation laws in
Louisville, Kentucky early settlement in; “fall line” in
“love”: between African American men and women; declarations of
Maid; physical proximity to whites as
Manumission; requests for. See also Freedom
Marriage; exchanging subsistence for; fair-skinned African Americans and
Mattison, Hiram; distribution of power with Louisa Picquet; narrating Louisa Picquet; and normative standards of beauty
Mexico; African American agricultural colony
Migration of African Americans; of whites
Military
Miscegenation. See also Interracial; Laws
Mississippi; early settlement
Mistress: shifting meaning of; Southern
Mixed race; as fugitives; girls and women and abuse; as limited currency; as powerful: marital preference. See also Fair skin, “Passing”; “Tragic mulatto”
Mob attacks
Mobile, Alabama
Montana
Morality; and stability of the white family
Motherhood. See Family
Mulatto. See Mixed race
Natchez; cholera in; domestic slave trade in; militia in; orphanage in; population growth
Native Americans: and African Americans; dwindling presence in Colorado
Nebraska
Negotiation. See Power; Resistance
New Orleans; African American kinship in; African American slaveholders in; domestic slave trade in; growth of; prostitution in; racial hierarchy in; reputation for race-mixing; and river traffic; as site for “fancy girls”; as site for free people of color
New Richmond, Ohio
New York
Newspapers
Oberlin College. See also Education
Ohio
Ohio River; benefits of; industry and the; slave theft on. See also Slave, theft
Panic of 1837
Parker, J.K.
“Passing”
Paternalism
Pensions. See Veterans, war
Performances, of race and gender. See also “Fancy girls”; “Passing”
Petitions
Physical abuse, and African Americans
Picquet, Elizabeth
Picquet, Henry
Picquet, Louisa; and attention to race; on auction block; early life; legacy of; motives of; narration by; purchasing mother; time in Mobile
Plantations
Planters; from domestic slave traders to; social status of
Potter, Eliza
Power; negotiations of; perceptions of; and white men
Promiscuity, perceptions of
Prostitution. See also “Fancy girls”
Psychology; as historical problem
Purdy, James. See also Ballard, Louise
Quadroon. See also “Tragic mulatto”
Quakers. See also Abolitionists
Race: disrupting social hierarchy; as social construction
Railroad; and decline of steamboats; employment
Ramsey, Elizabeth. See also Picquet, Louisa
Rape. See also “Fancy girls”; Intimacy; Mixed race; Power; Physical abuse; Sex
Reproduction, and enslaved African American women
Resorts. See also Armfield, John; Potter, Eliza; Tawawa
Respectability
Revolutionary War
Richmond, Virginia
Riot. See Mob attacks
Rivers
Rust, R.S.. See also Townsends; Wilberforce
Sandweiss, Martha
Scott, James. See also Power; Resistance
Seattle
Seward, William
Sex; coercion; consensual; history of interracial
Sex work, See also “Fancy girls”; Prostitution
Shoe Boots. See also Native Americans
Slaveholders; and abolitionists
Slave revolt, See also Resistance
Slave thefts
Slave trade: domestic; image of
Slavery; racial ideology during
Smalls, Robert. See also Intraracial conflict
Southern; defense of slavery; way of life; white mens investments in African Americans. See also Ballard, Rice C.; “Mister Ray”
Steamboat; decline of industry; workers. See also African American, employment
Stereotypes; of African Americans; of African American women. See Promiscuity; Wench
Tait, Bacon
Television shows. See also In the Heat of the Night
Tennessee
Texas
Todd, James. See also King, Clarence
Townsends, inheritance; “first class”; “second class”
Townsend, Carrie Leonteen
Townsend, Charles Osborne; attitudes toward African Americans; and interest in Willis; “passing”
Townsend, Charles. See Charles Osborne
Townsend, Edmund
Townsend, Elvira; See also Disposition; Power
Townsend, Elizabeth
Townsend, Hannah
Townsend, Jane; See also Townsend, Wesley
Townsend, Lucy
Townsend, Milcha. See also Bibb, Nellie; Caldwell, Nellie
Townsend, Rainey. See also Cabaniss, Septimus; Lakin, D.L.; Townsend, Samuel
Townsend, Samuel; death; early life
Townsend, Susanna; conflict with Wesley. See also Disposition
Townsend, Thomas
Townsend, Virginia
Townsend, Wesley; as blacksmith’ conflict with others; and W.D. Chadick
Townsend, William Bolden
Townsend, Willis. See also Steamboat
Townsend, Winney. See also Cabaniss, Septimus; Townsend, Samuel
Townsend, Woodson; arrest of; in Kansas
“Tragic mulatto”: beginnings of icon; and imagined works
Trollope, Frances
Tucker, Lucile; and “Louisa”
Turner, Henry. See also Ballard, Rice C.
Turner, Nat. See also Power; Resistance; Slave revolt
Turnpikes. See also Urbanization
Underground Railroad. See also Coffin, Levi; Hill, Dennis
Urbanization; and African Americans; and alcohol; and anonymity; growth; and imagined works; race and
Veterans, war. See also Civil War
Victorian. See also “Cult of domesticity”
Virginia; African American migration from; interracial unions in; slave trade, domestic; white migrants from;
Wage work
Ward, Elizabeth A.. See also White, Avenia
Weddings. See also Marriage
Weeden, John David
Wench. See also Enslaved women; “Fancy girls”; Stereotypes
Wilberforce
Williams, John. See also Picquet, Louisa
White, Avenia; and brothel; gifts to African Americans; and intimacy; as “Old Lady”; White men, financial mismanagement
Xenia, Ohio; See also Abolitionists; Townsends; Wilberforce
“Yellow complexion”
Zion Baptist Church. See also Cincinnati; Picquet, Louisa