The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism (112 page)

Rust, George,
293

Rutherford, C. M.,
358
,
361–362
,
363

Rutledge, John,
10–11
,
12

Sable Venus,
236
,
237 (photo)

Sanford, Eliza Irene,
368

Santa Anna, Antonio López de,
267

Schumpeter, Joseph,
86

Scientific racism,
415

Scott, Dred and Harriet,
368–369
,
376–379

Scott, Winfield,
328–329
,
357

Secession/secessionists,
387–395
,
414

Second Bank of the United States (B.U.S.)

establishment of,
91–92

Jackson’s veto of,
269
,
270

Panic of 1819 and,
156
,
228
,
229

Panic of 1837 and,
277–278

slave trade, cotton, politics and,
230
,
231–233
,
238–239
,
244–245
,
248
,
249–254
,
255
,
255 (photo)
,
257

Secret resistance/left-handed power,
112–113

Seneca Falls Convention, 1848,
334

Seward, William,
339
,
371
,
388–389

Sexual desire, slave trade, and financial risk,
233–235
,
236–237
,
243–244
.
See also
Sexual exploitation, of enslaved women

Sexual exploitation, of/sexual assault on, enslaved women,
25
,
215–217
,
233–244
,
305
,
359
,
244 (photo)
.
See also
Sexual desire, slave trade, and financial risk

Sharecropping,
408

Sharp, Granville,
185–186

Shepherd, Joseph,
148

Shepherd, Richard,
85
,
86–87

Sidney, Allen,
117–118

Simmons, Betty,
296

Slaughter, Ben,
343–345
,
347
,
359

Slaughter, Richard,
343–345
,
347

Slaughter, Robert,
288–289
,
290

Slave auctioneers,
94–95

Slave auctions,
36–37
,
96 (photo)
,
244 (photo)
,
289 (photo)
,
349 (photo)

credit at,
100

family separation and,
106–107

“hand” concept and,
100–105

individual transactions vs.,
184

interrogation of enslaved at,
96–99

at Maspero’s Coffee-House,
76
,
83–85
,
86–87
,
88
,
89
,
90
,
94–109

sexualization of enslaved women’s bodies at,
99–100
,
241
(see
also
Sexual exploitation, of enslaved women
)

skills/expertise of enslaved people and,
103–104

slave inspected at,
97 (photo)

Slave bonds,
245–248
,
247 (photo)
,
254
.
See also
Bonds

Slave-catchers,
309

Slave code,
32

Slave colonies, in North America,
3–4

Slave conspiracies, rumors of,
195
,
211–212
,
386

Slave importing states, and forced migration, by decade, 1790–1859,
3 (table)

Slave mission,
210–211

“Slave Power,” Southern politicians as the,
312
,
325–326
,
327
,
328
,
332
,
341
,
342

Slave pen,
402 (photo)

Slave price(s),
173
,
174 (fig.)
,
175
,
176
,
179
,
269–270
,
311–312

in 1850s and 1860,
359

enslaved people transferred to southwestern states and,
185

Slave rebellion, on
Amistad
(Cuban slave ship),
355

Slave Rebellion of 1822 (Denmark Vesey slave conspiracy),
195
,
228

Slave Rebellion of 1811 (German Coast, Orleans Territory),
56–66
,
199–200

tribunal and executions,
62–64

Slave Rebellion of 1831 (Nat Turner’s Rebellion),
207–208
,
209–210

Slave rebellion/Haitian Revolution of 1791 (Saint-Domingue),
44–49
,
51
,
58–59
,
63–64
,
73

Slave rebellions,
40
,
101
,
347–348

Slave representation, in the House of Representatives,
9–10
,
20
,
153–154
,
324

Slave ships,
39–42
,
43

Slave speculators,
179–185

Slave trade

banks, cotton, politics and,
229–233
,
238–239
,
244–259

international, ban on,
48
,
186
,
297–299
,
301

sexual desire, financial risk and,
233–235
,
236–237
,
243–244

and sexual exploitation, of enslaved women,
215–217
,
233–244
,
244 (photo)

See also
Atlantic slave trade
;
International slave trade
;
Professional slave trade/slave traders
;
Slave trader(s)

Slave trader(s)

kidnapping methods used by,
189–190
,
191
,
193–199
,
199 (photo)

as one-eyed man,
243–244

sexual desire, financial risk and,
233–235
,
236–237
,
243–244

and sexual exploitation, of enslaved women,
215–217
,
233–244
,
244 (photo)

See also
Professional slave trade/slave traders

Slavery

abolition of,
405

and capitalism, expansion of both,
33
,
413

expansion of, false claims about,
29–30

expansion of, legacy of,
417

proslavery argument for,
390–391

as theft,
187–191
,
199–200

Slaves.
See
Enslaved men
;
Enslaved people
;
Enslaved women

Slidell, John,
304

Smith, Adam,
320

Smith, Gerrit,
375
,
383–384

Smith, Margaret Bayard,
228

Smylie, James,
211

Solidarity,
172
,
309
,
417
,
419

Somersett, James,
185

Songs/music/dancing, and enslaved people,
146–147
,
160–168
,
165 (photo)

Soulé, Pierre,
357

South Carolina,
32
,
42

South Carolina Yazoo Company,
19–20

Southeast, vs. southwest, sexual pirates and,
241–242

Southeastern states, number of enslaved people transferred from southwestern states to,
185