University, court, and slave : pro-slavery thought in southern colleges and courts, and the coming of Civil War /
"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...
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Oxford, UK ; New York, NY :
Oxford University Press,
2016
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Table of Contents:
- The rebel and the professor : Nat Turner and Thomas Dew, and the Utility of slavery
- Pro-slavery 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 pro-slavery 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
- Pro-slavery 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