Thomas R.R. Cobb: An Inquiry into the Law of Negro Slavery in the United States of America

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Thomas R.R. Cobb: An Inquiry into the Law of Negro Slavery in the United States of America
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Thomas R.R. Cobb was one of the most significant antebellum proslavery legal scholars in the United States. Having codified Georgia state law, founded the Lumpkin School of Law (now the University of George School of Law), and participated in the writing of the Confederate States of America’s Constitution, Cobb established the legal framework for the existence of racebased slavery in America. Arguing that Black Africans were naturally inferior to whites, Cobb postulated that this made them suitable for enslavement and that the condition was an improvement for them over freedom.

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