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University, court, and slave pro-slavery thought in southern colleges and courts, and the coming of Civil War

Title
University, court, and slave [electronic resource] : pro-slavery thought in southern colleges and courts, and the coming of Civil War / Alfred L. Brophy.
Author
Brophy, Alfred L.
Publication
Oxford, UK ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2016]

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Description
1 online resource (xxvi, 373 pages) : illustrations.
Uniform Title
University, court, and slave (Online)
Alternative Title
University, court, and slave (Online)
Subject
  • Slavery > Law and legislation > History > United States > 19th century
  • Jurisprudence > Southern States > History > 19th century
  • Southern States > Intellectual life > 19th century
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-361) and index.
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Contents
The rebel and the professor : Nat Turner and Thomas Dew, and the Utility of slavery -- Proslavery academic thought in the 1840s and 1850s -- The southern scholar -- Brown University's president confronts slavery -- The chancellor, the slave, and the student -- The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 : the grammar of proslavery thought -- The novelist and the jurist : Harriet Beecher Stowe's jurisprudence of sentiment -- Beyond State v. Mann : Thomas Ruffin's jurisprudence -- Joseph Henry Lumpkin : industrialism and slavery in the old south -- Proslavery 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.
LCCN
2016009495
OCLC
ssj0001717016
Author
Brophy, Alfred L.
Title
University, court, and slave [electronic resource] : pro-slavery thought in southern colleges and courts, and the coming of Civil War / Alfred L. Brophy.
Imprint
Oxford, UK ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2016]
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-361) and index.
Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
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