Wendell Phillips

Liberty's Hero

James Brewer Stewart

• Publisher: LSU Press
• Year: 1998
• Print ISBN: 9780807141397
• eBook ISBN: 9780807154014
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: American Civil War History
• Index: History

Throughout the Civil War era, no other white American spoke more powerfully against slavery and for the ideals of racial democracy than did Wendell Phillips. Nationally famous as "abolition's golden trumpet, " Phillips became the North's most widely hailed public lecturer, even though he espoused ideas most regarded as deeply threatening -- the abolition of slavery, equality among races and classes, and women's rights. James Brewer Stewart's study resolves this seeming paradox by showing how Phillips came to possess such extraordinary rhetorical gifts, how he used them to shape the politics of his times, and how he rooted them in his upbringing, marriage, and personal relationships.

Index

Abolitionism: class tensions within, 45, 73–76

rise of, 51–52

ideology of, 52–53, 64–65, 244

and Irish, 81, 109–12, 120, 179

feminism and, 64, 81, 281–83, 285

race relations within, 100–101, 103–104

factions within, 118–19, 131–32, 196–97, 210–11, 226–27

success of, 195–96, 228

Phillips’ roles in, 129–31,158–63,198, 251

social groups within, 100–101,127

and disunionism, 140, 144–45

and defiance of fugitive slave laws, 152–55, 158–59

violence and, 154–55,198–99

and Emancipation Proclamation, 241

Garrison retires from, 243

and temperance, 285

history of, 317–18. See also American Anti-Slavery Society

Adams, Charles F., 134,143

Adams, John, 17, 30

Adams, John Quincy, 56, 58,133,134, 138,140, 160

Adams, Samuel, 60, 61, 62, 104, 325, 327

Alcott, Louisa M., 313

Alton, Ill., 58, 62

Alvord, James, 43

American Anti-Slavery Society, 52, 77, 102,117, 118,127,132, 144,151,173, 211, 226, 243, 249, 253, 258, 280, 287, 189, 333

schisms in, 64–68, 81, 118, 131–32, 197–98, 226–27, 250–51, 153–54,165, 282–83

secession from, 68

disunionism and, 123, 126–27, 139, 226–27

and Civil War, 243–44

and emancipation, 244

Garrison resigns from, 264–65

Phillips as president of, 265–66

and female suffrage, 281–83, 287

dissolution of, 293–95

Andrew, John A., 213, 219, 229, 244

Anthony, Susan B., 224, 265, 281, 282, 283, 333

Appleton, Nathaniel, 212

Appleton, Thomas, 4, 5, 20, 323

Attucks, Crispus, 29, 104, 184, 199

Austin, James T., 59–60, 61, 63, 274, 309

Ballou, Adin, 113

Banks, Nathaniel P., 245

Barker, Sarah, 72

Beecher, Henry W., 151, 244

Beecher, Lyman, 16

Bell, John, 209

Bellamy, Edward, 291

Bennett, James G., 228

Benson, Henry, 51

Benson, Mary, 51

Bernardo (Phillips’ ward), 107, 152

Bird, Frank W., 299

Birney, James G., 65, 81,119

Blagden, Crawford, 332–33

Blagden, Julia, 331

Blagden, Samuel, 331–33

Blagden, Wendell Phillips, 331

“Bleeding Kansas,” 178

Booth, Sherman, 199

Boston, 4–5, 215–17, 219, 260, 308

Boston Anti-Slavery Society, 63

“Boston clique,” 100–101,107,127,129–31, 132, 138, 158

breakup of, 265

Boston Female Anti-Slavery Society, 42

Boston Latin School, 9–10, 11–12, 19

Boutwell, George, 231

Bowditch, Henry I., 99, 120, 321

Bradburn, George, 81

Briggs, John A., 133, 134

Brooks, Phillips, 324

Brooks, Preston, 178

Brougham, Baron, 80

Brown, Antoinette, 175

Brown, John, 103, 157, 320

and Phillips, 29, 202–208, 215, 325

insurrection attempted by, 201–208

Brown, Oliver, 203, 204, 214

Brown, Watson, 204

Brown, William Wells, 102

Browne, Albert G., 267

Buchanan, James, 178, 197

Buckingham, Edgar, 101

on Phillips at Harvard, 20, 21, 23, 34

Bulfinch, Charles, 1, 2

Burke, Edmund, 24, 28–29, 30, 57, 60, 65, 104, 194, 205, 230, 249, 327

Burleigh, Charles C, 64, 126, 265, 273

Burns, Anthony, 106, 168–71, 176, 198, 202, 215, 233

effect on Phillips, 172–73, 178

Burr, Aaron, 39, 229

Butler, Benjamin F., 234, 238, 245, 254, 171, 303, 307, 308

Phillips’ support for, 244, 247, 250, 297–98, 301–302

Calhoun, John C, 124, 134, 149

Can an Abolitionist Vote or Take Office Under the Constitution? (Phillips), 123

Chandler, Peleg, 99

Chandler, Zachariah, 230

Channing, Edward, 20

Channing, William Ellery, 46, 58–59

Chapman, Henry B., 44, 47, 48

as abolitionist, 45, 69

Chapman, Maria Weston, 44, 84, 100, 107,127, 132

feminism of, 64, 87

as abolitionist, 69,103–104, 196, 210, 244, 249

relationship with Phillips, 128

Chase, Salmon P., 95,134,175

Cheever, George B., 243–44, 265

Child, Lydia Maria, 64, 87,117,130,141, 304, 306, 321

Chinese immigration, 292–93, 297

Civil Rights Bill (1875), 306–307, 311

Civil War, 133–34, 218–19

Phillips on meaning of, 219–25, 229–31

and emancipation, 225–26, 228–29

Clarke, James Freeman, 324, 333

Clarkson, Thomas, 80

Clay, Cassius M., 175

Clay, Henry, 133

Collins, Jennie, 301

Collins, John, 81,113

Compromise of 1850, pp. 146–48,166

“Conscience Whigs,” 133,134, 138,139, 140, 152

Constitution, a Proslavery Document, The (Phillips), 123, 124

“Cotton Whigs,” 122,133, 138,139,147, 155,163, 212

Craft, Ellen, 152

Craft, William, 152

Cromwell, Oliver: as hero of Phillips, 28–29, 104, 206, 239

Curtis, Benjamin R., 37

Curtis, George T., 154, 157, 324

Curtis, George William, 21, 307

Dana, Richard Henry, 169, 172

Davis, Edward N., 107

Davis, Henry Winter, 231

Davis, Jefferson, 220, 268

Debs, Eugene V., 291

Democratic party, 119, 143, 163,178, 209, 267, 269, 271, 304, 307

Desmond, Mary, 108

Disunionism: Phillips’ views on, 118, 120, 121–23, 115–17, 136,139–41, 179

beginnings of, 71

and Civil War, 133–35

and sectionalism, 136,137–38

unpopularity of, 141

Douglas, Stephen A., 168, 177, 209, 228

Douglass, Frederick, 100, 101, 152, 243, 244, 265, 304

relationship with Phillips, 104

Downing, George, 265

Drake, F. H., 107, 144,152

Dred Scott v. Sanford, 178, 198

Dresser, Amos, 5 5

Eight-hour movement: Phillips’ involvement in, 261–63, 270, 296–97, 300, 302

and the franchise, 262–63, 292

Eliot, Charles W., 324

Elwell, Mary, 39

Emancipation Proclamation, 241, 244

Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 147, 175,194, 195, 203, 204, 313

Everett, Edward, 7, 122,133, 211, 212

Fairbanks, Calvin, 315

Female suffrage, 281–83, 291, 302. see also Feminism

Feminism, 294

among abolitionists, 64, 81, 281–83, 285

conflict with Phillips, 282–83

Fessenden, William Pitt, 271, 289, 290

Fifteenth Amendment, 259, 290–94, 304, 308

Fillmore, Millard, 152, 154, 160

Flanders, M. J., 225

Folien, Charles, 220

Formes, Carl, 108

Forten, Charlotte, 317

Foster, Abby Kelley, 88,126,141,142, 232, 329

feminism of, 64, 87

abolitionism of, 107, 127, 159, 196, 197, 198, 226, 228, 244, 250, 265, 293

perfectionism of, 118

and disunionism, 141

relationship with Phillips, 87, 130, 250, 265, 321

Foster, Stephen S., 64, 126, 142, 232, 234, 273

abolitionism of, 107, 127, 159/ 196, 197, 198, 200, 210, 226, 228, 241, 244, 250, 254, 265, 2...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication
• Contents
• Illustrations
• Preface and Acknowledgments
• ONE: The Aristocrats’ Child
• TWO: The Studies of a Young Apollo
• THREE: Career Despair and Marriage of Hope
• FOUR: The Second Wendell Phillips
• FIVE: Europe and Essex Street
• SIX: Race, Class, and New England Abolitionists
• SEVEN: Disunionism and Politics
• EIGHT: Whigs and Slave Hunters
• NINE: The Orator and the Insurrectionist
• TEN: Citizen Wendell Phillips
• ELEVEN: Reconstruction, Capitalism, and the Franchise
• TWELVE: Nationality
• THIRTEEN: The Eclipse of Republicanism
• FOURTEEN: The Travail and Solace of History
• Bibliography
• Index