Title
University, court, and slave [electronic resource] : proslavery academic thought and southern jurisprudence, 1831-1861 / Alfred L. Brophy.
ISBN
9780190625931 (electronic book)
Published
New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2016.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xxvi, 373 pages) : illustrations
Other Standard Identifiers
10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199964239 doi
Call Number
KF4545.S5 B76 2016eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
342.73087
Summary
'"This book 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. The profits of enslaved labor helped pay for education, and faculty and students at times actively promoted the institution. They wrote about the history of slavery, argued for its central role in the southern economy, and developed a political theory that justified slavery. The university faculty spoke a common language of economic utility, history, and philosophy with those who made the laws for the southern states. Their extensive writing promoting slavery helps us understand how southern politicians and judges thought about the practice. As Alfred L. Brophy shows, southern universities fought the emancipation movement for economic reasons, but used history, philosophy, and law in an attempt to justify their position. The combination of economic reasoning and historical precedent helped shape a southern, proslavery jurisprudence. 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, this book will fundamentally transform our understanding of the institutional foundations of pro-slavery thought." -- Book jacket and publisher's website.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Access Note
Access limited to authorized users.
Source of Description
Description based on print version record.
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.
