University, Court, and Slave: Pro-Slavery Thought in Southern Colleges and Courts and the Coming of Civil War
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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...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0190933763
ISBN13:9780190933760
Release Date:September 2019
Publisher:Oxford University Press
Length:404 Pages
Weight:1.25 lbs.
Dimensions:1.0" x 6.1" x 9.1"
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