Stamped From the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America (105 page)

slave trade

British expansion into,
37–39

domestic supply,
136–137

England supplying captive slaves to Spanish America,
70

Enlightenment in Europe,
81–82

Las Casas’s regrets over enslaving Africans,
27

Linnaeus’s racial hierarchy,
83–84

Portugal,
22–25
,
28

prostitution of African women,
42–43

Taíno people,
26–27

writings of Leo Africanus,
28–29

Zurara’s defense of African trade,
23–24

Slave Trade Act (1807),
136–137
,
148

slavery,
7

absolute dominion of slaveholders,
49–51

Alex Haley’s
Roots
,
422–423

ancient civilizations,
17

as God’s law,
48–49

as punishment and atonement,
33

Christianization of slaves,
43–44
,
46
,
65
,
68–69
,
73

congressional slavery debate,
121–123

criminal justice system perpetuating,
470–471
,
501

Declaration of Independence,
104–108

enslavement of biracial children,
40–41

expansion of Virginia’s plantations,
40–41

freedom and slavery contradiction,
121

increasing population in New England,
67–68

Jefferson’s holdings,
157–158

linguistic hierarchy,
472

Mather’s view of the White soul,
59–60

Native Americans as slaveholders,
139–140

New England legalization,
18

New Englanders’ closed-mindedness over,
66–67

Pequot War and the enslavement of indigenous populations,
18–19

producing vices attributed to Black people,
98

Quakers,
87–89

Reconstruction as a return to,
263–264

reviving polygenesis,
101

Thomas Jefferson’s upbringing,
86–87

Slavs, Eastern European,
20–21

Small, William,
90–91

smallpox,
70–71
,
93

Smalls, Biggie,
455

Smith, Adam,
106
,
174–175

Smith, John Augustine,
133

Smith, Jon,
36–37

Smith, Samuel Stanhope,
113–115
,
129
,
133

Social Darwinism,
210
,
264
,
266–267
,
353

social media,
477
,
500
,
502–503

social problem, Blacks as,
168–169

socialism,
336–342

Socialist Party of America (SPA),
315

Sociobiology: The New Synthesis
(Wilson),
431–432

soldiers, Black,
296
,
312–313

Soledad State Prison,
411–413

Some Consideration on the Keeping of Negroes
(Woolman),
88

Somerset, James,
97–98

Songhay Empire,
19–20
,
28

Soul on Ice
(Cleaver),
401–402

The Souls of Black Folk
(Du Bois),
291–294

South Africa,
359–360
,
435

Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC),
399

Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases
(Wells),
274–275

Southern Negro Youth Congress,
381–382

The Southern South
(Hart),
271–272

southern strategy, Nixon’s,
410–411

Spain,
25–27
,
38

Spencer, Herbert,
210

standardized testing,
311–312
,
426–427
,
456–457
,
479

Stanley, Henry Morton,
269–270

Stanton, Elizabeth Cady,
191–192
,
241–242
,
246–247

states’ rights,
115–116
,
208–209

Stephens, Alexander,
215

Stevens, Thaddeus,
181
,
236

Stewart, Maria,
167

stock market crash,
330–332

Stockton, Robert,
148–149

Stowe, Harriet Beecher,
191–197
,
201
,
271
,
291–293
,
347–348

Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee,
369
,
374
,
377
,
388–389
,
395–396
,
405
,
408–409

Students for a Democratic Society (SDS),
407–408

Studies in the Psychology of Sex
(Ellis),
280

Stutman, Robert,
434

suffrage, Black,
234
,
241–242
,
244–246
,
248–250

suffrage, women’s,
245–247
,
274
,
304–305

A Summary View of the Rights of British America
,
100

Sumner, Charles,
181
,
233
,
256

Supreme Court, US

Brown v. Board of Education
,
361–363
,
365

Clarence Thomas nomination,
447–448

Dred Scott
decision,
203–205

Griggs v. Duke Power Co
.,
416

Nixon’s campaign racism,
411

Plessy v. Ferguson
,
278

racial profiling and capital punishment,
442

Regents v. Bakke
,
425–428

rescinding the 1875 Civil Rights Act,
264–265

Roe v. Wade
,
414–415

Shelley v. Kramer
,
356–357

Slaughterhouse Cases,
253

upholding affirmative action,
478–479

voter suppression,
476–477

Sweet Sweetback’s Baadassss
(film),
413–414

syphilis,
333

Taft, William Howard,
297–298

Talented Tenth,
293–294
,
304
,
309
,
317–318
,
320
,
326
,
328–329

Tallmadge Amendment,
151

Taney, Roger B.,
204–205
,
253

Tappan, Arthur,
176

Tarzan of the Apes
(Burroughs),
299–300
,
344

Taylor, Linda,
424

Taylor, Zachary,
187–189

Tea Party,
498–499

The Tempest
(Shakespeare),
37

10
(film),
421

Terman, Lewis,
311

terrorism,
255
,
477–478
,
498

Texas, annexation of,
181
,
186

theater, portrayal of Blacks in,
34–37

Their Eyes Were Watching God
(Hurston),
346–347

Thernstrom, Abigail and Stephan,
468

Thomas, Clarence,
447–448

Thomas, William Hannibal,
289–290

Thoughts on African Colonization
(Garrison),
174–175

Thoughts on the Colonization of Free Blacks
(Finley),
145–146

three-fifths clause,
115–117

Through the Dark Continent
(Stanley),
269–270

Thurman, Wallace,
324

Thurmond, Strom,
356

Tilden, Samuel J.,
258

Till, Emmett,
365

Tillet, Salamishah,
419

To Kill a Mockingbird
(Lee),
369–370

Tocqueville, Alexis de,
167–168

Tourgee, Albion,
273

The Tragic Era: The Revolution After Lincoln
(Bowers),
330–332