Description |
1 online resource (xxvi, 373 pages) : illustrations |
Contents |
Part I. The contours of academic pro-slavery thought -- The rebel and the professor : Nat Turner, Thomas Roderick Dew, and the utility of slavery -- Pro-slavery academic thought in the 1840s and 1850s -- The southern scholar -- Brown University's president confronts slavery -- The chancellor, the slave, and the student -- Part II. Connecting moral philosophy and legal thought -- The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 : the grammar of pro-slavery thought -- The novelist and the jurist : Harriet Beecher Stowe's jurisprudence of sentiment -- Part III. The core of southern legal thought -- Beyond State v. Mann : Thomas Ruffin's jurisprudence -- Joseph Henry Lumpkin : industrialism and slavery in the Old South -- Pro-slavery jurisprudence : Thomas Reade Roots Cobb's An inquiry into the law of negro slavery -- "The dictate of a wise policy" : judicial opposition to freedom -- Slavery, property, and constitutionalism in the secession debates |
Summary |
'University, Court, and Slave' reveals long-forgotten connections between universities and pro-slavery thought. Proslavery faculty wrote about the economic and historical importance of slavery and helped shape a proslavery jurisprudence that made it harder to free slaves and pushed the South towards Civil War |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
Notes |
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Subject |
Slavery -- Law and legislation -- United States -- History -- 19th century
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Jurisprudence -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century
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LAW -- Constitutional.
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LAW -- Public.
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Intellectual life
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Jurisprudence
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Slavery -- Law and legislation
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Southern States -- Intellectual life -- 19th century
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Southern States
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United States
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Genre/Form |
History
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Form |
Electronic book
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LC no. |
2016011052 |
ISBN |
9780199964246 |
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0199964246 |
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9780190263614 |
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019026361X |
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9780190625931 |
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0190625937 |
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0199964238 |
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9780199964239 |
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