The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism (114 page)

Weed, Thurlow,
389
,
392

Weigh-in/quotas/whipping/torture, and cotton productivity,
131–136
,
132 (photo)
,
135 (photo)
,
139–144
,
197
,
363–365
.
See also
Whipping/torture

Wellington, Lord,
67

Wells, Sarah,
133
,
363

Welsh, John,
254

West Florida,
50
,
59
,
68

Whipping-machine, as metaphor,
141–142
.
See also
Weigh-in/quotas/whipping/torture, and cotton productivity

Whipping/torture,
120–121
,
122
,
134
,
305

behavioral modification techniques and,
264

humiliation and,
261–265

methods of,
141–142

See also
Weigh-in/quotas/whipping/torture, and cotton productivity

Whiskey,
14

Whitaker, Wilson,
96

White, Hugh,
327

White male equality,
215–224

elections and,
222–224

and Jackson, Andrew, as president,
224–229

politics and,
224
,
226

violence and,
215–222

White-males-only democracy,
252

White men

southern, and Reconstruction, resistance to,
408–409
,
415

southern, mulatto women and,
50

southern-elite, postwar power of,
415

white-males-only democracy and,
252

and white women’s social authority, disdain for,
241

White women, social authority of, disdain for, and white men,
241

property ownership and proslavery attitudes,
286–287

Whitman, Walt,
163
,
166

Whitteker, Anna,
257

Wilkinson, James,
50

William (slave),
75
,
88
,
94
,
95
,
100
,
102
,
105
,
106
,
108
,
109
,
111
,
143–144
,
198
,
199

Williams, Ned,
75

Willis, Charlotte,
98

Wilmot, David,
327–328
,
382

Wilmot Proviso,
327–328
,
330–331
,
335
,
340
,
356

Wilson, Hawkins,
283

Wilson, Lulu,
347

Wily, Thomas,
109

Wimprenn, Hans,
62

Woman’s Rights Convention, Seneca Falls, 1848,
334

Women’s rights movement,
334

Woolfolk, Austin,
179
,
183–184
,
192
,
194
,
198
,
219

Woolfolk, John,
179
,
184

Wootton, Thomas,
21

Wurts, John,
254

Yancey, William Lowndes,
334

Yazoo companies/land sales,
19–21
,
29
,
30
,
32–34
,
56

Young, George,
361

Young, Hugh,
39

Zombi/Zombie, enslaved people as,
145–147
,
147–148
,
167