University, Court, and Slave: Pro-Slavery Thought in Southern Colleges and Courts and the Coming of Civil War

by Alfred L. Brophy

Book Overview

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, USA
• Length: 404 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.1"