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Index of
Black Demographic Data, 1790-1860: A Sourcebook

by
Clayton E. Cramer

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INDEX


A

abolition, 12
  compensating owners, 53
  economic interest, 17
  social change, 18
ACS. See American Colonization
  Society
Adams, John, 11
Ahistoric Regions
  tables, 96
Alabama
  free black immigration restrictions,
   31
  tables, 133
All regions
  tables, 93
Allen, Richard, 24
American Colonization Society, 54,
  56, 58
Antifederalists, 16
Appeal to the Colored Citizens of the
  World, 27
Arkansas, 29
  tables, 136
Ashmun, Jehudi, 56


B

Berlin, Ira, 2
Bill of Rights, 8
black suffrage, 13
Bostick, John, 24


C

Calhoun, John C., 44
California
  free black immigration restrictions,
   34
  tables, 147
Cannibals All!, 26
Carter, Robert, 22
Christian egalitarianism, 8, 9
Cincinnati, Ohio, 60
Clay, Henry, 56
colonial censuses, 1
colonization, 28, 59
  Christianity and republicanism, 57
  numbers, 58
  state colonization societies, 59
Colorado
  tables, 140
Confederacy
  tables, 150
Confederate Constitution
  import restrictions on slaves, 51
Congress
  and the international slave trade,
   51
Connecticut, 52
  gradual abolition, 13
  manumission, 23
  tables, 104
Constitution
  and slavery, 17
  import restrictions on slaves, 51
cotton gin, 11
Creationism, 37


D

De Tocqueville, Alexis, 39
Delaware, 52
  free black immigration restrictions,
   31
  tables, 122
Democracy in America, 36, 156
Denmark Vesey conspiracy, 25, 28,
  32
Deutsch, Albert, 47
Dew, Thomas R., 58
District of Columbia
  tables, 124


E

East North Central
  tables, 72, 115
East South Central
  tables, 81, 135
Effects of Slavery on Morals and
  Industry, 12
Ellison, William, 24
emigration
  to Canada, 60
  to Haiti, 61


F

Finley, Robert, 56
Fitzhugh, George, 26
Florida
  free black immigration restrictions,
   32
  tables, 129
Franklin, Benjamin, 11
free blacks
  colonial period, 7
  declining numbers in the North, 36
  embarassment to slavery ideology,
   27
  free state immigration restrictions,
   32, 35
  immigration, 55
  rarity before Revolution, 7
  re-enslavement, 29, 31
  slave discontent, 56
  slave state immigration restrictions,
   32
  the frontier, 37
Free Frank, 24
Fugitive Slave Act of 1850, 2, 60
fugitive slave laws, 59


G

Garrison, William Lloyd, 58
Georgia, 52
  free black immigration, 55
  tables, 128
gradual abolition, 14, 19
Great Awakening, 8
gun control, 23


H

Haiti
  and emigration, 60
Haitian Revolution, 25
  free black immigration, 55
Hall, Prince, 55
Hamilton, Alexander, 11
Hooker, Thomas Hart, 10
Horsman, Reginald, 37
human rights, 8, 10


I

Illinois
  black unemployment, 39
  disabled blacks, 48
  free black immigration restrictions,
   33
  tables, 112
importation, 8
importation of slaves prohibited by
  states, 52
indentured servitude
  slaves held under pretense of, 15
Indiana
  and disabled blacks, 48
  free black immigration restrictions,
   33, 38
  tables, 111
interstate slave trading restrictions, 40
Iowa
  tables, 117


J

Jarvis, Edward, 44
Jay, John, 11
Jefferson, Thomas, 8, 9, 19, 20, 21,
  25, 57, 58
   and manumission, 19
Johnson, Samuel, 7


K

Kansas
  tables, 120
Kentucky
  and disabled blacks, 48
  free black immigration restrictions,
   31
  interstate slave trading restrictions,
   40
  tables, 131
Key, Francis Scott, 56


L

L'Ouverture, Toussaint, 55
Lincoln, William, 3
literacy, 9
Louisiana
  free black immigration, 55
  free black immigration restrictions,
   31
  tables, 137
Louisiana Purchase, 25


M

Maine
  tables, 99
manumission, 15, 22, 29
  colonial restrictions, 7, 19
  military service, 22
  post-colonial restrictions, 27, 28
  testamentary, 16, 20
Maryland, 31, 52
  colonial free black census, 7
  interstate slave trading restrictions,
   40
  tables, 123
Massachusetts
  abolition, 12
  tables, 102
Michigan
  free black immigration restrictions,
   33
  tables, 113
Middle Atlantic
  tables, 69, 109
Minnesota
  tables, 116
Mississippi
  tables, 134
Missouri
  and disabled blacks, 48
  tables, 118
Missouri Compromise, 25
Mountain
  tables, 87, 144


N

Nash, Gary, 10, 16
Naturalization Act of 1790, 52
Nebraska
  tables, 119
Nevada
  tables, 143
New England
  tables, 66, 105
New Hampshire
  abolition, 12
  tables, 100
New Jersey, 52
  gradual abolition, 14
  tables, 107
New Mexico
  tables, 141
New York, 52
  gradual abolition, 13
  manumission, 23
  tables, 106
New York Manumission Society, 11
North Carolina, 52
  tables, 126
Northwest Ordinance (1787), 14
Notes on the State of Virginia, 8, 19


O

Ohio
  and disabled blacks, 48
  free black immigration restrictions,
   33
  free blacks, 60
  free labor and slavery, 40
  tables, 110
Oregon
  free black immigration restrictions,
   33
  tables, 146
Orleans Territory. See Louisiana


P

Pacific
  tables, 90, 148
passing for white or Indian, 2
Pennsylvania, 52
  gradual abolition, 12
  tables, 108
Pennsylvania Abolition Society, 12
Philadelphia, 60
phrenology, 37
Prosser, Gabriel, 25


R

Race and Manifest Destiny: The
  Origins ofAmerican Racial Anglo-
  Saxonism, 37
race war, 19, 52, 58
Randolph, John, 56
Rhode Island, 52
  gradual abolition, 13
  manumission, 23


S

self-purchase, 25
slave breeding, 53
slave dumping, 32, 39
slave importation, 13
Slave states (1861)
  tables, 152
slavery
  arms, 23
  family structure, 53
  positive good theory, 26
slaves
  importation restrictions, 52
Somerset decision, 12
South Atlantic
  tables, 78, 130
South Carolina, 8, 28, 52
  free black immigration, 55
  free black immigration restrictions,
   31,32
  slave importation restrictions, 52
  tables, 127
Suppression of the African Slave-
  Trade, 54


T

Tennessee
  tables, 132
term slavery, 2
Texas, 54
  tables, 138
Thoughts on African Colonization, 58
tobacco, 10, 53
Tucker, George, 56
Tucker, St. George, 56
Turner's Rebellion, 25, 26, 28, 58


U

Underground Railroad, 59
Union (1861)
  tables, 153
Union Slave (1861)
  tables, 151
United States
  tables, 149
Utah
  tables, 142


V

Vermont
  abolition, 12
  tables, 101
Vesey, Denmark, 25, 28, 32
Virginia, 52
  abolition, 28
  and disabled blacks, 48
  free black immigration restrictions,
   31, 32
  interstate slave trading restrictions,
   40
  manumission, 21
  slave self-defense, 10
  tables, 125


W

Walker, Quock, 12
Washington
  tables, 145
Washington, George, 20
Webster, Noah, 12
West North Central
  tables, 121
West South Central
  tables, 84, 139
Whipple, William, 10
white racial superiority, 37
Whitfield, George, 8
Whitney, Eli, 11
Wisconsin
  tables, 114

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