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Evils of Necessity: Robert Goodloe Harper and the Moral Dilemma of Slavery, Transactions, American Philosophical Society (Vol. 87, Part 1)

Evils of Necessity: Robert Goodloe Harper and the Moral Dilemma of Slavery, Transactions, American Philosophical Society (Vol. 87, Part 1)

Papenfuse, Eric R.

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Series: Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, Book 1212

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ISBN10: 0871698714
ISBN13: 9780871698711
Publisher: American Philosophical Society Press
Published: Jan 1 1997
Pages: 160
Weight: 1.14
Height: 0.44 Width: 7.00 Depth: 10.00
Language: English
Robert Goodloe Harper (1765-1825), a prominent attorney and U.S. Congressman from S. Carolina and Maryland, was one of the most influential Federalists of the early national period. The South's leading proponent of the Jay Treaty, a framer of the Sedition Act, the powerful chairman of the House Ways and Means Comm., a dogged supporter of Aaron Burr, an outspoken counsel for John Pickering and Samuel Chase, and two-time failed V.P. candidate, Harper is traditionally remembered as an extreme example of unthinking, reactionary conservatism in an era of intense partisanship and bitter sectional conflict. This revisionist account reinterprets Harper's political philosophy in light of his personal struggle with the moral dilemma of slavery.

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