John Brown (Du Bois)/Index

by W. E. B. Du Bois

 

INDEX

• Abolitionists, 86, 91, 93, 96, 125, 341–342.
• Adams, John Quincy, 49.
• Adirondack farm, the, 12, 199.
• Alcott, A. Bronson, 210, 290–291.
• Alleghany Mountains, 48, 106, 127, 275, 279, 299.
• Anderson, Jeremiah, 258, 282–283, 324, 325, 336.
• Anderson, John, 282.
• Anderson, Osborne Perry, 280, 305, 334, 336.
• Atchison, Senator, 134, 175.
   
• Black Jack, battle of, 166–169, 221.
• Brown, Anne, 286, 300, 301.
• Brown, Edward, 145.
• Brown, Frederick (the brother), 95.
• Brown, Frederick (the son), 128, 152, 155, 166, 167, 178.
• Brown, Jason, 87, 128, 146, 149, 159, 160, 186.
• Brown, John, Jr., 127, 146, 147, 159, 186.
• Brown, John, ancestry of, 15, 16, 18, 19, 20; boyhood and youth of, 21–23, 25, 31; as tanner, 31; marriage of, 32; occupations of, 32; family life of, 33–37; second marriage of, 38; in panic of 1837, 41; as shepherd, 52–60; as wool merchant, 61–68; in England, 68–71; lawsuits of, 71–74; and fugitive slaves, 84, 85; first plan against slavery, 87–88; and Negroes in, 89–91; and mobs, 91; and oath vs. slavery, 92, 93; and Abolitionists, 91–94; and settlement in Virginia, 95; and black men, 97–121; and Frederick Douglass, 102–109; in the Adirondacks, 111–113; in Kansas, 126–134, 139–140, 143–144, 145–197; developing plans of, 198–206; trip eastward of, 197, 207–218; meets Forbes, 216; return westward, 218; securing arms and men, 218–225; second trip eastward, 225–251; at Douglass' home, 225–227; revelation of, 229–231; trip to Canada of, 15, 248–251; meets Harriet Tubman, 249–251; return to Iowa of, 251–253; third trip eastward of, 252; return to Canada, 252; Chatham convention, 253–266; betrayal of, by Forbes, 266–269; in New England and New York, 268–270; third return westward, 270–272; Harper's Ferry plans of, 274–277; financial resources of, 277–278; military organizations of, 106, 116, 149, 160–169, 175–179, 181–182, 188–189, 191, 226–227, 278–279; Negro companions of, 280–283; white companions of, 283–287; health of, 288; seventh trip eastward, 288–291; starts South, 291; arrives at Harper's Ferry, 292; perfecting arrangements, 293–307; meets Douglass, 295–297; life at Kennedy Farm, 298–302; betrayal of plans of, 302–303; raid of, at Harper's Ferry, 308–337; capture of, 333–334; fate of companions of, 336; results, 338; trial of, 356–364; execution of, 363–364; last letters of, 365–373; and present Negro problem, 373–396; character of, 15, 16, 22–23, 26–47, 300–301, 338–358; descriptions of, 21, 28, 73, 74, 92, 104, 173–174, 197, 287; family of, 31–39, 42, 44, 45, 58, 71, 73, 74, 87, 88, 89, 92, 95, 102–104, 112, 119, 120, 121; letters of, 42–46, 53-60, 62–63, 66, 67, 69, 71, 72, 74, 87–88, 113, 118, 132, 146–149, 151, 152, 159, 166–169, 178, 179, 182, 186, 187, 188–189, 218, 220, 227, 228, 232–234, 248, 249, 257, 266, 267, 270, 271, 304, 357, 365–373; reading of, 40; religion of, 23, 25, 40–41, 42, 47, 365–373; speeches of, 132, 150, 180–182, 213-214; song of, 334.

• Brown, Oliver, 133, 146, 149, 152, 155, 283.
• Brown, Owen, 19, 20, 77, 78, 128, 147, 152, 155, 186, 252, 259, 272, 283, 319, 329, 335, 336.
• Brown, Peter, 19.
• Brown, Salmon, 128, 137, 152–168, 186.
• Brown, Watson, 155, 283.
• Buchanan, President, 142, 214.
• Burns, Anthony, 72.
   
• Canada, the Negroes in, 236–238, 253–254, 270.
• Caste and the Negro, 76–78, 81, 235–247, 377–380, 387, 388, 391–393.
• Catchers, slave, 97.
• Charleston, Va. (W. Va.), 13.
• Committee, National Kansas, New York meeting of, 13, 207.
• Constitution, articles of Brown's, 265, 266.
• Constitution, pro-slavery, of Kansas, 136.
• Constitution, Lecompton of Kansas, 143, 187, 224.
• Contact of races, 380, 382.
• Convention, address of Philadelphia, 236–238.
• Convention, Big Springs, Kansas, 12.
• Convention, Chatham, 203, 257, 267.
• Convention, Syracuse, of Abolitionists, 12, 132, 133.
• Cook, John E., 219, 220, 252, 259, 315, 316, 318, 319, 324, 331, 336.
• Copeland, John A., 281–305, 325, 336.
• Coppoc, Barclay, 223, 319, 336.
• Coppoc, Edwin, 223, 336.
• Coronado, 16, 123.
• Covenant and by-laws of John Brown's followers, 160–161.
• Crandall, Prudence, 87.
   
• Daingerfield, Captain, 326.
• Daniels, Jim, 192.
• Davis, Jefferson, 124, 391–393.
• Day, Mary Ann, 11, 38, 241.

• Decision, Dred Scott, 142, 213.
• Delaney, Martin R., 245–246, 248, 254, 258.
• Diary, John Brown's, 278.
• Douglass, Frederick, 7, 12, 13, 15, 47, 101, 102–109, 121, 122, 131, 132, 214, 225, 241, 247, 258, 342, 344–346, 353.
• Douglas, Stephen A., 126.
• Dutch Henry's Crossing, 134, 154.
   
• Emancipation, 386–387.
• Engine-house at Harper's Ferry, 326, 334.
• Fight at Harper's Ferry, 322–326.
• Floyd, John, Secretary of War, 124.
• Forbes, Hugh, 73; meets Brown, 216–217; goes West, 218–219; returns East, 219; betrays plans, 225; complaints of, 266, 268.
• Franklin, Kansas, attack on, 175–176.
• Freedom, League of, 244.
• Free Soilers, 131.
• Fugitive Slave Law, 12, 236.
• Fugitive slaves, 82, 84, 85, 88, 94, 106–108, 203–204, 241.
   
• Gabriel, 11, 83, 127.
• Garnet, H. H., 98, 102, 240, 243, 248, 258.
• Garrison, William Lloyd, 15, 93, 342.
• Geary, Governor of Kansas, 13, 141–180, 183–184.
• Giddings, Joshua, 152, 391–392.
• Gill, George B., 223, 259.
• Gloucester, Negro minister, 98, 248, 258.
• Great Black Way, the, 273.
• Greeley, Horace, 130, 266.
• Green, Shields, 280, 323, 334, 336, 343–347.
   
• Hall, Pennsylvania, 91.
• Hamilton's massacre, 188, 192–194.
• Harper's Ferry raid: the place of, 273–274; plans of, 274–276; financial resources of, 277–278; military organizations of, 278–280; participants of, 280–288; depot at Chambersburg, 291–292; preparations, 293–307; beginning of foray, 308; capture of armory, 310; capture of town, 311; capture of Colonel Washington, 311–312; halting of train, 313; bringing up the arms, 314–316; further plans, 317–319; gathering of militia, 320–322; dislodging of Kagi, 324–325; retreat of engine-house, 326; killing of Brown's men, 327–329; arrival of Lee, 331; parleying, 330–333; capture of Brown, 333–334; capture and escape of others, 334–336.
• Harper, Samuel, 194–195.
• Hayti, 75, 97.
• Hazlett, Albert, 334, 336.
• Henson, Josiah, 241, 253.
• Hinton, R. J., 7, 173, 181, 189, 204, 207, 222, 258, 277, 284.
• Holden, Isaac, 257, 258, 277, 284.
• Howe, Dr. S. G., 210, 231, 267, 341, 343.
• Hunter, Andrew, 352, 353, 356.
   
• Independence, Chatham Declaration of, 272.

• Insurrection, Cumberland region, 97.
• Insurrection in Virginia, 81.
• Insurrection of slaves, 79, 80, 83, 85, 97, 105–106.
• Insurrection, proposed Negro, 166.
• Intermarriage of races, 382, 384, 385.
• Isaac, insurrection of, 97.
   
• Jackson, President, 50.
• Jamaica, 79, 97.
• Jones, Henry, 241.
• Jones, John, 248.
• Jones, J. M., 256, 258.
• Jones, Ottawa, 178.
• Journal, Freedom's, 239.
   
• Kagi, J. H., 13, 196, 199, 200, 201, 202, 252, 259, 317, 318, 324, 325.
• Kansas, 123; Brown's sons in, 127–131; and slavery, 126, 134, 138, 144; John Brown and, 125, 126–127, 131–134, 139, 143–197.
• Kansas-Nebraska Bill, 13, 135, 136, 219–221.
• Kennedy Farm, 319.
   
• Lane, General James, 134, 141, 173–176, 186.
• Lane's Army, 13, 173–176.
• Lane College, 95.
• Langston brothers, 241, 258.
• Law, Fugitive Slave, 12, 113, 119.
• Lawrence, Kansas, 14, 167, 170; sacking of, 153–154; last attack on, 180–184.
• League, Liberty, 244.
• League of Gileadites, 12, 114.
• Leary, Lewis Sherrard, 282–305.
• Lee, Robert E., 13, 331, 332.
• Leeman, William H., 221, 252, 259, 325, 336.
• Liberator, The, 94, 239.
• Liberty Hall, 158.
• Loudoun Heights, at Harper's Ferry, 275, 318.
• L'Ouverture, Toussaint, 75, 216.
• Lovejoy, 91, 115.
• Lusk, Dianthe, 11, 32, 38.
   
• Marlborough Chapel, 91.
• Massacre at Dutch Henry's Crossing, 139–140, 143–144, 154–159.
• Maxon farm, Iowa, 252.
• Merriam, F. J., 286, 305, 336.
• Middle Creek, Kansas, 158.
• Military organization of Brown's men, 106, 146, 149, 160–169, 175–179, 181–182, 188-189, 191, 226–227, 278–279.
• Mills, Peter, 19.
• Missouri slave raid, 191–197.
• Mobs, abolition, 91.
• Mobs against Negroes, 235.
• Moffett, Charles W., 221, 252, 259.
• Montgomery, Captain, 188, 189, 190, 191.
• "Morgan, Shubel," 189.
• Mulattoes, 77.
• Mysteries, American, 244.
   
• Negro character, 17.
• Negro conventions, 236, 237, 238, 239, 242, 244, 245–246.
• Negro emigration, 245–246.
• Negro insurgents, 318, 353–354.
• Negro insurrections, 79–80, 83, 85, 97, 105–106.
• Negro leaders, 97, 98, 101, 102, 110, 240, 241–243, 246, 258, 259, 294, 295.

• Negro, Northern, 235.
• Negro organizations, 203–204, 244.
• Negro progress, 1830–1840, 235; 1840–1850, 240; 1850–1860, 243.
• Negro slavery, 76–84.
• Negroes, 12, 16.
• Negroes in America, 16, 17 ; in Canada, 236–238.
• Negroes, increase of, in ten years, 243.
• Negroes and John Brown, 343, 344, 347.
• Negroes of Springfield, 98, 99.
• Negroes, present condition of, 389.
• Newby, Dangerfield, 281, 323.
• North Elba, New York, 12.
• North Star, 101, 242.
   
• Oberlin College, 11, 53, 55, 95, 258, 281, 283.
• Oberlin College lands in Virginia, 53–55, 95.
• Odd Fellows, Negro, 240.
• Osawatomie, Kansas, 12, 128, 142, 147, 152, 159, 162, 166, 177, 224.
• Owen, John, 19.
   
• Panic of 1837, 11, 50, 55, 91.
• Parker, Theodore, 210, 227, 231.
• Parsons, L. L., 220–221, 252, 259.
• Perkins, Simon, 58, 68.
• Perkins and Brown, wool merchants, 62, 67.
• Pierce, President, 151.
• Plans at Harper's Ferry, 101, 318, 319, 324, 326.
• Plans of John Brown, 106–107, 260, 276.
• Pottawatomie Creek, 12, 157, 158, 162.
• Purvis, Robert, 241, 246.
   
• Raid at Harper's Ferry, see Harper's Ferry.
• Realf, Richard, 215–220, 252, 259.
• Redpath, James, 7, 72, 99, 132, 147, 181, 246.
• Reeder, Governor of Kansas, 215.
• Reynolds, G. J., 208, 258, 260.
• Richardson, Richard, 221, 252, 258.
• Robinson, Charles, Governor of Kansas, 134, 150, 184, 207, 341, 342.
• Rochester, N. Y., state convention, 244–245.
• Ross, Dr. A. M., 251, 257.
• Routes, Fugitive Slave, 97.
   
• "Sambo's Mistakes," 99.
• Sanborn, Frank B., 7, 13, 210, 228, 267.
• Schools for Negroes, 87, 94, 95
• Shannon, Governor of Kansas, 141, 149, 150, 176.
• Shore, Captain, 167–168.
• "Shubel Morgan's" Company, 189.
• Slave insurrections, 79–80, 83, 85, 97, 105–106.
• Slavery, 75–89, 124-126, 235.
• Smith, Gerrit, 12, 53, 131, 132, 133, 207, 226, 303, 341.
• Smith, J. McCune, 98, 131, 132, 225, 240, 267.
• Smith, Stephen, 241, 248, 258.
• Societies, Phoenix, 239.
• Society, American Anti-slavery, 246.
• Society, American Moral Reform, 238.

• Society, New England Emigrant Aid, 136, 145.
• Song of "John Brown's Body," 374.
• Southern bands in Kansas, 152, 166, 188.
• Spell of Africa, 121.
• Springdale, Iowa, John Brown in, 221–224.
• Stephens, Aaron D., 173, 194, 195–222, 252, 259, 336.
• Stearns, George L., 208–210, 226, 228, 277, 341.
• Still, William, 241, 248.
• Stuart, J. E. B., 332, 333.
• "Subterranean Pass Way," 214.
• Sumner, Colonel, 15, 137, 139, 168–169, 225, 266.
• Survey of Virginia lands, 53–55.
• Swamp, Dismal, 86.
• Swamp of the Swan, 134, 145, 177, 188, 288.
• Sword of Gideon, 96.
   
• Tariff and wool, 61.
• Tariff of 1846, the, 65.
• Taylor, Stewart, 223, 259.
• Thayer, Eli, 126, 214.
• Thomas, John A., 258.
• Thomas, Thomas, 101, 247.
• Thompson, Henry, 133, 155–168.
• Thompson, William, 77, 173, 315, 316, 319, 324, 328, 329.
• Tidd, C. P., 221, 252, 259, 315, 316, 319, 324, 331, 335, 336.
• Tubman, Harriet, 204, 241, 249, 251, 293.
• Turner, Nat, 11, 85, 97, 127, 239.
   
• Underground Railroad, 94, 101, 107, 110, 198, 243, 263.
• University, Western Reserve, 86.
   
• Vesey, Denmark, 83, 97.
• Virginia, 16.
   
• Wakarusa war and treaty, 151.
• War, Civil, 48, 142.
• War in Kansas, 140, 142.
• War of 1812, 25, 48–49.
• Ward, Samuel Ringgold, 242, 243.
• Wars, Seminole, 84.
• Washington, Colonel Lewis, 317, 322.
• Wilberforce University, 236, 253.
• Wilson, Senator, 225, 226.
• Wise, Governor of Virginia, 336, 355.
• Woodson, Governor of Missouri, 180, 241.
• Wool-growers' convention, 62.