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.
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.
Alfred L. Brophy is Professor of Law at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the author of Reparations Pro and Con and Reconstructing the Dreamland.
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* Table of Contents * Preface * Introduction * Part I: The Contours of Academic Proslavery Thought * 1. The Rebel and the Professor: Nat Turner and Thomas Dew * 2. Proslavery Academic Thought in the 1840s and 1850s * 3. The Southern Scholar: College Literary Addresses * 4. Brown University's President Confronts Slavery * 5. The Chancellor, the Slave, and the Student * Part II: Connecting Moral Philosophy and Legal Thought * 6. The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850: The Grammar of Proslavery Thought * 7. The Novelist and the Jurist: Harriet Beecher Stowe's Jurisprudence of Sentiment * Part III: The Core of Southern Legal Thought * 8. Beyond State v. Mann: Thomas Ruffin's Jurisprudence * 9. Joseph Henry Lumpkin: Industrialism and Slavery in the Old South * 10. Proslavery Jurisprudence: Thomas Reade Roots Cobb's An Inquiry Into the Law of Negro Slavery * 11. "The dictate of a wise policy ": Precedent, Utility, Progress, Humanity, and the Empirical in Antebellum Jurisprudence * 12. Slavery, Property, and Constitutionalism in the Secession Debates
* Table of Contents * Preface * Introduction * Part I: The Contours of Academic Proslavery Thought * 1. The Rebel and the Professor: Nat Turner and Thomas Dew * 2. Proslavery Academic Thought in the 1840s and 1850s * 3. The Southern Scholar: College Literary Addresses * 4. Brown University's President Confronts Slavery * 5. The Chancellor, the Slave, and the Student * Part II: Connecting Moral Philosophy and Legal Thought * 6. The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850: The Grammar of Proslavery Thought * 7. The Novelist and the Jurist: Harriet Beecher Stowe's Jurisprudence of Sentiment * Part III: The Core of Southern Legal Thought * 8. Beyond State v. Mann: Thomas Ruffin's Jurisprudence * 9. Joseph Henry Lumpkin: Industrialism and Slavery in the Old South * 10. Proslavery Jurisprudence: Thomas Reade Roots Cobb's An Inquiry Into the Law of Negro Slavery * 11. "The dictate of a wise policy ": Precedent, Utility, Progress, Humanity, and the Empirical in Antebellum Jurisprudence * 12. Slavery, Property, and Constitutionalism in the Secession Debates
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