In the decades before the American Civil War, many slaveholders defended slavery through politics, religion, and economics. Few did so more effectively than Thomas Roderick Dew. A professor at the College of William & Mary and later its president, Dew became one of the South’s most influential pro slavery thinkers. His writings helped convince many […] TalkAfricana
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