University, court, and slave : pro-slavery academic thought and southern jurisprudence, 1831-1861 /
'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 Sou...
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New York, NY :
Oxford University Press,
2016.
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Table of 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.