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University, Court, and Slave - Pro-Slavery Thought in Southern Colleges and Courts and the Coming of Civil War (Hardcover)
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University, Court, and Slave - Pro-Slavery Thought in Southern Colleges and Courts and the Coming of Civil War (Hardcover)
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Alfred L. Brophy's 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 were physically abused on their campuses. Education was
often paid for through the profits of enslaved labor. University
faculty - and students - also promoted the institution of slavery.
They wrote about the history of slavery, its central role in the
southern economy, and developed a political theory that justified
keeping some people in slavery. The university faculty spoke a
common language of economic utility, history, and philosophy with
those who made the laws for the southern states. That extensive
writing promoting slavery helps us understand how southern
politicians and judges thought about slavery. As antislavery
rhetoric 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, proslavery jurisprudence. Following Lincoln's November
1860 election southern academics joined politicians, judges,
lawyers, and other leaders to argue that their economy and society
was threatened. Southern jurisprudence led them to believe that any
threats to slavery and property justified secession. In some cases,
academics took their case to the southern public and, in one case,
to the battlefield, to defend slavery.
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