Alfred L Brophy

University, Court, and Slave

Pro-Slavery Thought in Southern Colleges and Courts and the Coming of Civil War

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Hurst & Co.
• Seitenzahl: 402
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. August 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 239mm x 165mm x 38mm
• Gewicht: 635g
• ISBN-13: 9780199964239
• ISBN-10: 0199964238
• Artikelnr.: 47870282

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

* 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