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

by Alfred L. Brophy

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'University, Court, and Slave' reveals long-forgotten connections between universities and pro-slavery thought. Proslavery faculty wrote about the economic and historical importance of slavery and helped shape a proslavery jurisprudence that made it harder to free slaves and pushed the South towards Civil War.

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Alfred L. Brophy

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Alfred L. Brophy is D. Paul Jones Chairholder in Law at the University of Alabama School of Law.

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Frederick Douglass Book Prize (Finalist – 2017)

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Important places: American South
Original language: English

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Languages: English
Media: Paper, Ebook
ISBNs: 5

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Published: 2016
Genres: Politics and Government, Nonfiction, History, Sociology
DDC/MDS: 342.73087
LCC: KF4545 .S5 .B76

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