Research Catalog

Title

The legacy of St. George Tucker : college professors in Virginia confront slavery and rights of states, 1771-1897 / Chad Vanderford.

Author

Vanderford, Chad

Publication

• Knoxville : The University of Tennessee Press, [2015]
• ©2015

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Details

Description

x, 262 pages; 24 cm

Summary

"This is a study of a long line of discussions, begun by St. George Tucker and carried out by his sons and other southern intellectuals, about the implications of natural rights principles upon the status of slavery and the relation between federal and state power. While often treated by historians monolithically as universal defenders of slavery, southern constitutional scholars often had surprisingly nuanced, carefully thought-out views, some of which recognized the inherent contradictions of the strong natural rights position expressed in the nation's founding documents, particularly the Declaration of Independence, and the existence of human bondage. The manuscript examines the effect of this long debate on states' rights, Federal rights, secession, the Civil War, and Reconstruction"--

Alternative Title

Legacy of Saint George Tucker

Subject

• Tucker, St. George, 1752-1827
• Tucker family
• 1800 - 1899
• Slavery > Law and legislation > History > United States > 19th century
• Constitutional law > Virginia > Philosophy > History > 19th century
• Law > Study and teaching > History > Virginia > 19th century
• Constitutional law > Philosophy
• Law > Study and teaching
• Slavery > Law and legislation
• United States
• Virginia

Genre/Form

History.

Note

• Based on the author's thesis (doctoral -Louisiana State University, 2005) issued under title: Rights of humans, rights of states : the academic legacy of St. George Tucker in nineteenth-century Virginia.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-256) and index.

Contents

Introduction : Rights of Humans, Rights of States -- Reconsidering the Necessary-Evil Argument : Natural Rights and Slavery in St. George Tucker's Virginia -- The Constitutional Education of St. George Tucker -- Slavery, Honor, and Higher Education in Henry Tucker's Virginia -- The Divided Legacy of a Founding Father : Henry and Beverley Tucker Confront Nullification and Secession -- The Legacy Betrayed : Classic Natural Right and the Emergence of the Positive Good Argument -- A Legacy Transformed : Secession, the Lost Cause, and John Randolph Tucker's Proposal for the Incorporation of the Fourteenth Amendment.

ISBN

• 9781621902164
• 1621902161

LCCN

2015014395

OCLC

• ocn910294517
• SCSB-1841819

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library