University, Court, and Slave

About this Episode

Al Brophy returns to discuss, among other things, his new book on the connections between slavery, the academy, legal theory, and the judiciary.

This show’s links:

• Al Brophy’s faculty profile and writing
• Alfred Brophy, University, Court, and Slave: Pro-Slavery Thought in Southern Colleges and Courts and the Coming of Civil War; see also Al’s blog post about the book and Google books page where you can browse a bit
• Oral Argument 76: Brutality (guest Al Brophy)
• Brooks Barnes and Cara Buckley, ‘The Birth of a Nation,’ Nate Parker’s Heralded Film, Is Now Cloaked in Controversy
• Birth of a Nation (2016) trailer
• State v. Mann
• Sally Green, State v. Mann Exhumed
• About Thomas R.R. Cobb
• Thomas Cobb, An Inquiry into the Law of Negro Slavery in the United States of America
• Daniel Victor, Bill O’Reilly Defends Comments About ‘Well Fed’ Slaves
• Sarah Roth, Gender and Race in Antebellum Popular Culture (browse here on Google Books); see also Al’s blog post
• Slavery’s Capitalism (Sven Beckert and Seth Rockman, eds.); see also Al’s blog post about the book and containing links)
• State v. Negro Will, Slave of James S. Battle