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Author Brophy, Alfred L., author.

Title University, court, and slave : pro-slavery academic thought and southern jurisprudence, 1831-1861 / Alfred L. Brophy
Published New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2016

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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
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Subject Slavery -- Law and legislation -- United States -- History -- 19th century
Jurisprudence -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century
LAW -- Constitutional.
LAW -- Public.
Intellectual life
Jurisprudence
Slavery -- Law and legislation
SUBJECT Southern States -- Intellectual life -- 19th century
Subject Southern States
United States
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2016011052
ISBN 9780199964246
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