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University, Court, and Slave - Pro-Slavery Thought in Southern Colleges and Courts and the Coming of Civil War (Paperback)
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University, Court, and Slave - Pro-Slavery Thought in Southern Colleges and Courts and the Coming of Civil War (Paperback)
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University, Court, and Slave reveals long-forgotten connections
between pre-Civil War southern universities and slavery.
Universities and their faculty owned people-sometimes dozens of
people-and profited from their labor while many slaves endured
physical abuse on campuses. As Alfred L. Brophy shows, southern
universities fought the emancipation movement for economic reasons,
but used their writings on history, philosophy, and law in an
attempt to justify their position and promote their institutions.
Indeed, as the antislavery movement gained momentum, southern
academics and their allies in the courts became bolder in their
claims. Some went so far as to say that slavery was supported by
natural law. The combination of economic reasoning and historical
precedent helped shape a southern, pro-slavery jurisprudence.
Following Lincoln's November 1860 election, southern academics
joined politicians, judges, lawyers, and other leaders in arguing
that their economy and society was threatened. Southern
jurisprudence led them to believe that any threats to slavery and
property justified secession. Bolstered by the courts, academics
took their case to the southern public-and ultimately to the
battlefield-to defend slavery. A path-breaking and deeply
researched history of southern universities' investment in and
defense of slavery, University, Court, and Slave will fundamentally
transform our understanding of the institutional foundations
pro-slavery thought.
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