Joseph Henry Lumpkin
Joseph Henry Lumpkin
Industrialism and Slavery in the Old South
Justice Joseph Henry Lumpkin of the Georgia Supreme Court, like Thomas Ruffin, dealt frequently with cases involving slavery and self-consciously promoted the institution through his decisions. This chapter survey’s Lumpkin’s opinions across a variety of areas, including emancipation of slaves via will and his extrajudicial writings. They depict a judge deeply concerned with slavery’s history, the economics of slavery, and its place in southern culture. Lumpkin did what he could to promote slavery, which he saw as a part of a vibrant and modern south. Slavery and corporations were part of Lumkin’s vision of a commercial and industrialized south. This, thus, shows the centrality of slavery to economic development in the mind of one prominent southern jurist.
Keywords: proslavery judges, capitalism, emancipation, modernity, law and economics, corporations, property rights, slavery, abolitionists, Georgia
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