by Taylor, Alan
Mitchell, Robert
Monroe, James
as President
Montgomery Co., Md.
Montgomery Co., Va.
Monticello Plantation
Moore, John
Murphy, Pleasants
Naparima, Trinidad
Napier, Sir Charles
Napoleon Bonaparte
Nassau, Bahamas
National Intelligencer
nationalism, American
Neale, Augustine
Negro Fort
Nelson, Lord Horatio
Nelson Co., Va.
New Brunswick
New England
New Orleans, La.
New Point Comfort
New York City
New York (state)
Newell, Capt. Thomas M.
Newton, Thomas
Nicholas, Peggy
Nicholas, Wilson Cary
Nicolls, Major Edward
Nomini Ferry, Va.
Nonsuch, USS
Norfolk, Va.
North Carolina
North Point, battle of
Northern Neck
Northampton Co., Va.
Northumberland Co., Va.
Nottingham, Md.
Nourse, Capt. Joseph
Nova Scotia
black refugees in
Ohio
Old Dick
Oneill, John
Orange Co., Va.
overseers
Oxford Iron Works
Palmerston, Lord
Paradise, Lucy Ludwell
Parker, Gen. Alexander
Parker, Jacob G.
Parker, Col. Richard E.
Parker, Gen. Thomas
Parkinson, Richard
Parrott, John
Patapsco River
Patriots, American
Patterson, John
Patuxent River
Pennsylvania
Perks, Thomas
Petersburg, Va.
Philadelphia
Picton, Thomas
Piedmont region
Pinckney, Gen. Thomas
Plantagenet, HMS
Plater, John Rousby
Pleasants, James
Pleasants, Robert
Port of Spain, Trinidad
Potomac River
Poverty
Powhatan Co., Va.
Prentiss, William
Presson, Capt. William
Preston, N.S.
Primrose, Thomas
Prince Edward Co., Va.
Prince Frederick Town, Md.
Prince George’s Co., Md.
Prince William Co., Va.
Princess Anne Co., Va.
privateers, American
pro-slavery ideology
Prosser, Thomas Henry
Pumphrey, James
Pungoteague Creek
Pybus, Cassancra
Quakers
Quincy, Josiah
race and racial concepts
Randolph, Francis Bland
Randolph, John
Randolph, Richard
Randolph, Theodorick
Randolph, Thomas Jefferson
Randolph, Thomas Mann, Jr.
Rappahannock River
Regulus, HMS
religion, Christian
see also Anglicans, Baptists, Methodists, Quakers
Republicans
republicanism
Richardson, John
Richeson, Henry
Richeson, John
Richmond, Va.
theater fire in
Richmond Co., Va.
Richmond Enquirer
Ripley, John
Ritchie, Thomas
Roane, Spencer
Roanoke Plantation
Roberts, George R.
Roberts, Jonathan
Robertson, George
Robertson, Thomas B.
Roots, Sam
Ross, Capt. Charles B. H.
Ross, David
Ross, Edward
Ross, Richard
Ross, Gen. Robert
Ross, William “Rolla,”
Rowley, Capt. Robert
Royal Navy
desertion from
officers’ views of Americans
raids along the Chesapeake shores
raids along the Georgia coast
runaways and the
treatment of free women
Ruby, HMS
Rule, John
Russell, Col. Gilbert C.
Russell, Jonathan
Saint-Domingue
see also Haiti
St. George’s Island, Va.
St. John, N.B.
St. Mary’s, Ga.
St. Mary’s Co., Md.
St. Memin, Charles B. J. F. de
Sarus, the
Scotland
Shaler, William
Saunders, Charles
Saunders, Fanny Loney
Saunders, Hannah Marx
Saunders, Tom
Sceptre, HMS
Scott, Lt. James
Sea Islands, Ga.
Seale, Ignatius
Seawell, Henry
Seminole Indians
Sergeant, John
Serle, Ambrose
Shanklyn, Bartlett
Shaw, John
Sherbrooke, Gov. Sir John
Shiner, Michael
Sierra Leone
Singleton, James
Skinner, John
Skipwith, Col. Henry
Skipwith, Sir Peyton
slave patrols
Slaves (African-American)
conjurors among
diet of
emancipation and manumission of
escapes by
Slaves (African-American) (continued)
families of
as house servants
look to the British as liberators
material conditions of
migration of
mixed race
naming practices of
nocturnal lives of
as outliers
prices of
punishment of
religion of
rental of
resistance by
revolts by feared
sale of
sexual relations with
work of
see also “African-Americans”
smallpox
Smith, Rev. Armistead
Smith, George William
Smith, Isaac
Smith, John Tabb
Smith, Lewis
Smith, Margaret Bayard
Smith, Gen. Samuel
Smith, Sydney
Smith, Gen. Walter
Smyth, Alexander
Snead, Col. Smith
Somerset, James
Somerset v. Stuart
Somerville, Capt. Philip
Sotterley Plantation
South, American
the lower (or Deep)
the upper
South America
South Carolina
Southampton Co., Va.
Southside, Virginia
Spalding, Thomas
Spanish Empire
Spesutie Island, Md.
Spilman, James
Spotsylvania Co., Va.
Star-Spangled Banner
Starke, Col. Bowling
Stephen, James
Steward, Austin
Steward, James
Stokeley, Col. John
Stratton, Peter
Stuart, Charles
Stuart, Gen. Philip
Surry Co., Va.
Sutcliff, Robert
Sweeney, George Wythe
Swift, Col. John
Talley, Elkanah
Tallmadge, James, Jr.
Taney, Michael
Tangier Island, Va.
Tappahannock, Va.
Tatham, William
Taylor, Col. John
Taylor, Robert Barraud<
br />
Texas
Tidewater of Virginia
Tippecanoe, battle of
tobacco
Tomlin, John W.
Tompkins, Christopher
Tompkins, Daniel D.
torpedoes
Torrey, Jesse
transportation
Trant, Captain
Trinidad
Triumph, HMS
Tucker, Ann Frances
Tucker, Elizabeth
Tucker, George
Tucker, Henry
Tucker, Col. Henry
Tucker, Henry St. George
Tucker, John G. P.
Tucker, Lelia Skipwith Carter
Tucker, Nathaniel Beverley
Tucker, Mary (Polly) Carter
Tucker, St. George
death of
family relations of,
gradual emancipation plan by
as a judge
during the War of 1812
and management of Corotoman Plantation
Tucker, Theodorick Thomas Tudor
Tucker, Thomas,
Turberville, John
Turner, Nat
Turner, Samuel
Tyler, John
United States
abolishes foreign slave trade
Anglophobia in
Claims Commission for runaway slaves
crisis of 1814–1815 in
diplomacy with the British Empire
Federal Constitution of
United States (continued)
sectional relations in
special agents of
western expansion of
Upper Marlboro, Md.
Urmstone, Lt. George C.
Vermont
Vesey, Denmark
Virginia
American Revolution in
class relations within
Council of State
fear of slave revolts in
interstate slave trade and
manumission of slaves in
militia of
peace welcomed in
post-war depression in
relations with the federal government
sectional tensions within
state constitution of
slavery in
War of 1812 in
War of 1812
atrocities of
British operations in the Chesapeake during the
civil war aspect of
declaration of
escapes by the enslaved during the
military preparations in Virginia during
myth of British selling the runaways
Walker, David
Warminster, Va.
Warren, Sir John Borlase
Warwick Co., Va.
Washington, D.C.
British capture of
Washington, Bushrod
Washington, George
Washington, Nathaniel
Wayles, John
Webster, Joseph
Weems, Mason Locke
Welford, Dr. Horace
Wellington, Lord
West, Jeremiah
West Indian Regiments
West Indies
Westmoreland Co., Va.
Whiddington, William
White, James J.
Whitefield, Harvey Amani
Wilkinson, George
Williams, Lewis
Williams, Patrick
Williams, William
Williamsburg, Va.
Willis, Capt. Perrin
Willis, Simon
Wilson, Martha
Winchester, Va.
Winder, Levin (of Md.)
Winder, Levin (of Va.)
Winder, Gen. William H.
Winks, Robin
Winston, John
Wirt, William
women–510n68
Wood, Holland
Wood, Thomas
Woodford, Sir Ralph
Wrights, Jacky
Wybourn, Major Marmaduke
Wythe, George
Yeatman, Thomas R.
Yeocomico River
York Co., Va.
York River
Yorktown, Va.
Young, Peregrine
Zane, Noah
Burning of the Theater in Richmond, December 26, 1811, colored aquatint by B. Tanner, 1812. (Courtesy of the Virginia Historical Society).
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The internal enemy : slavery and war in Virginia, 1772–1832 / Alan Taylor. — First edition.
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1. Slavery—Virginia—Tidewater (Region)—History. 2. Slaves—Virginia—Tidewater (Region)—History. 3. Plantation life—Virginia—Tidewater (Region)—History. 4. Virginia—History—War of 1812. 5. United States—History—War of 1812—Participation, African American. 6. United States—History—War of 1812—Naval operations, British. I. Title.
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