political career, 70–73
Jefferson City, Mo., 51, 53
Jefferson Examiner, 59–60
Jefferson, Thomas, 4, 15
Jones, Jefferson, 49–51, 59, 81–82, 87
Jones, Samuel, 108–10
Jury instructions, 88–102, 106
Kansas, 53–68, 103, 107–11, 121
Kansas City, Mo., 64
Kansas-Nebraska Act, 48, 54–55, 60, 64
Kentucky, 2, 3, 34, 42, 76, 79
Kouns, Nathan, 74
Kouns, Nathan Chapman, 74–75, 89, 105, 113
Lane, James, 64–66, 107–9
Law and Order party, 107–8
Lawrence, Kans., 65, 108–10
Leavenworth, Kans., 63
Lecompton, Kans., 109–10
Leonard, Abiel, 105–7, 112–13
L’Ouverture, Toussaint, 46
Lexington, Mo., 58–61
Liberator, 69
Liberty, Mo., 55
Lincoln, Abraham, 71
Lloyd, William, 79–80
Louisiana Purchase, 54
Louisiana Territory, 15–16
Lucas, William, 12
Maine, 15
Martin, James M., 84–85
Maryland, 34, 42
Massachusetts Emigrant Aid Company, 55
Maties, Samuel, 79–80
Matt (slave), 104–5
Mexican War, 71–72
Mexico, Mo., 9
Missouri Compromise, 14–16
Missouri Republican, 11, 44, 52, 59–61, 108, 110
Missouri River, 2, 3, 8, 10, 19, 57, 63
Missouri School for the Deaf, 11
Missouri State Lunatic Asylum, 11
Montgomery County, Ky., 11
Morril, Daniel, 15
Nebraska, 54
New England Emigrant Aid Company, 55–67, 110
Newsom, David, 9, 23, 39–41, 43–44
Newsom, Harry, 2, 8, 23, 33, 39–40, 51–52, 115
Newsom, Mary, 9, 22, 27–29, 33, 39–40, 117
Newsom, Robert: 47, 66, 74, 76
buried, 115
murdered, 30–41, 81–87, 89–93, 102, 114
settles in Missouri, 1–9, 12–14
sexually exploits Celia, 20–30, 116–17
as slave owner, 16–20
New York, 3, 55
New York Tribune, 57
Nichols, Felix, 44
North Carolina, 3
North-Western Christian
Magazine, 77
Ohio, 55
Ohio River, 2
Park, George S., 57
Parkville Industrial Luminary, 57
Parkville, Mo., 57
Patterson, W. J., 57
Pawnee, Kans., 63–64
Pennsylvania, 3
Phillips, Ulrich B., 93, 119
Pierce, Franklin, 64
Platte City, Mo., 55, 110–11
Polk, James K., 71
Potomac River, 68
Powell, William, 33–43, 45, 83–84, 87, 102
Pratt, Thomas, 79–80
Prewitt, Robert, 79–86, 115
Price, Sterling, 60
Rachel v. Walker, 95
Randolph County, Mo., 68
Rape: legal aspects of, 89–101, 118–19
of slave, 20–30, 116–21
Reeder, Andrew, 63–65, 107
Richardson, W. P., 109
Robertson, William W., 10–11
Robinson, Charles, 65–66, 109–10
Robinson, Daniel, 42
Robinson, Elizabeth, 42
Ruffin, Edmund, ix
Ryland, John F., 112–13
St. Louis, Mo., 2, 15, 19, 45, 51–53, 56, 59, 61
Schwarz, Philip, 96–97
Scott, William, 94–95, 112–13
Selby, William J., 79–80
Selby, William P., 79–80
Sellers, Charles, x
Shannon, James, 59–64, 68
Shannon, William, 64, 107–10
Shawnee Mission, Kans., 64–65, 110
Sheets, Benjamin, 79–80
Shoatman, Thomas, 49–50, 86–87
Slave revolts, fear of, 46–51
Slavery: in Callaway County, 16–18
debates over, 14–16, 19–20, 53–67, 108–11
legal aspects of, 93–101, 118–21
Smith, William, 14
Snell, William T., 49, 78, 114
Southwest Democrat, 60
Stanton, Elizabeth Cady, ix
Statesman, 59
Stringfellow, Benjamin F., 56, 62, 108
Tallmadge, James, 14–15
Thayer, Eli, 55
Thomas, George, 41–42
Topeka, Kans., 65–66, 107
Transylvania University, 55, 75
Turner, Nat, 47–48
Tushnet, Mark, 119
Virginia, 1, 3, 42, 47–49, 74
Wakarusa War, 110–11
Walker, Alice, 118
Waynescot, Amelia, 9
Waynescot, Billy, 9, 29
Waynescot, James Coffee, 9, 29, 31–32, 39–40, 43, 83
Waynescot, Thomas, 9
Waynescot, Virginia, 2, 9, 18, 22, 27–29, 33, 39–40, 82–83, 102, 117
Webster, Daniel, 19
Wells, John, 42
Westminster College, 11
Weston, Mo., 56, 63
Westport, Mo., 62, 108
Whaley, D. S., 115
Whitfield, John W., 56,66
Whyte, D. M., 41–44, 114
Williams, John B., 114
Wylie, W. H., 48
Yancey, William Loundes, ix