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ABOLITIONISTS, religious phase
of movement, 15; and litera-
ture, 31, 32; causes, 170-
172; purpose compared with
anti-slavery, 173-175; bor-
der-state movement, 175-
179; southern leaders in
north, 179; Lundy organizes,
180; Garrison as leader, 180,
194, 320; Liberator, 180-183;
New England society, 183;
national society, 183;
principles, 184; growth, 184;
Garrison leaders, 184-187;
New England non-Garrisons,
188; in middle states, 189;
western, 190-196; Lane Sem-
inary discussion, 190, 191;
Oberlin as centre, 191-193;
Ohio state society, 193; Bir-
ney's Philanthropist, 193;
other western societies, 194;
diverse sectional develop-
ment, 194, 196; Chase as
political, 195; in Western
Reserve, 196; dissensions of
eastern, 197-201; question of
women agitators, 198; and
church disruption, 198; non-
political covenant, 200; and
other isms, 200; split, 200;
effect of split, 201; decay as
national moral force, 201,
315; adversaries on motives,
202, 232; character, 203;
method of agitation, 203, 232;
and gradual emancipation,

social

204; and slave-holders, 204,
310; knowledge of slavery,
205; and right of discussion,
205, 234, 244, 312, 321; prop-
aganda, 206; typical meet-
ing, 206; publications, 207,
332; negro leaders, 208, 209;
English co-operation, 209;
Irish address, 210;
ostracism, 210; and eastern
colleges, 210; clerical oppo-
sition, 211, 212; clerical sup-
port, 213; church split on,
213; association with ne-
groes, 215, 315; and amal-
gamation, 216; incendiary
publications, 216; and slave
insurrections, 217-221; and
fugitives, 221; southern
threats against, 235; arrested
in south, 235; mobbed there,
235; south demands north-
ern suppression, 236, 237;
antagonism with coloniza-
tion, 239;
and difficulties
of emancipation, 241; ap-
peals to state governments,
242; and slavery in states,
242; northern agitation
against, 242, 243; movement
for legislation against, 243,
244; within the law, 244;
Massachusetts hearing, 244;
attacks on their schools, 244,
245; mobbed in north, 245-
249; reaction, 249; repre-
sentation in Congress, 250;

and Constitution, 250-255;
petitions to Congress, 256,
258; congressional attacks
on, 256-259; gag resolutions,
259-261; Adams's defence
of petition, 260; Calhoun's
resolution on (1837), 261-
263; attitude of congres-
sional leaders, 263-269; re-
sult of congressional agita-
tion, 274; publications ex-
cluded from mail, 286-288;
southern indictments and
demand for extradition, 288;
southern rewards for, 289;
Van Buren on, 297; effect on
condition of slaves, 309; no
common starting-point with
defenders of slavery, 310; ad-
vantage due to contradictory
defences of slavery, 311, 312;
to refusal to try other reme-
dies, 312; rise of political,
315-317; Liberty party, 317-
319; use of political balance
of power, 319; advantage
due to sectionalism of sla-
very, 321; to harmony with
moral evolution, 322; and
cause of free labor, 323;
general bibliography, 324-
326; of biographies, 326; of
sources, 327-329, 332; of ar-
guments, 338-340. See also
Anti-slavery, Slavery.
Adams, C. F., and abolition,
187.

Adams, J. Q., and right of
search, 164; attitude towards
slavery and abolition, 175,
263, 268; and abolition peti-
tions (1831), 256; protests
gag resolution, 260; attempt
to censure (1838), 269;
(1844), 272, 273; overthrows
gag, 271; on emancipation
through war, 271; and New
Jersey certificates, 306.
Adams, Nehemiah, on cotton

and slavery, 61; champions
slavery, 137.
"Advance system" in south,

62.

African Repository, 162.
Agriculture, southern depend-

ence, 54-56; southern lands,
56; character of southern,
57, 62; southern staples, 57-
62; slave labor, 98, 99. See
also Cotton.

Alton, Lovejoy riot, 248.
Amalgamation, evidences, 80-
82; and abolitionists, 216.
American and Foreign Anti-
Slavery Society, 201.
American Anti-Slavery Society,
founded, 183; principles, 184;
split, 201. See also Aboli-

tionists.

American Bible Society, work,
14; and slavery, 212.
American Board of Foreign

Missions and slavery, 212.
American Colonization Society.
See Colonization.
American Convention for Aboli-
tion of Slavery, 161. See also
Anti-slavery.
Anti-slavery, colonial, 53; eco-
nomic elements, 53, 54, 169;
early protests, 152; and
Revolution, 153; and natu-
ral rights, 153, 166; first
society, 153; northern eman-
cipation, 153; territorial leg-
islation, 154-156; popular
movement, 157; effect of
Haiti, 157; in south, 158;
papers, 159; formal litera-
ture, 159; middle-states lead-
ers, 159; church movement,
160; local societies, 160;
national convention, 161;
decay of movement, 162, 165,
173; in Congress before 1830,
164; arguments based on
Christianity, 167; on cruelty,
167; on effect on whites, 168;