{"product_id":"9780817391546","title":"John Archibald Campbell: Southern Moderate, 1811-1889","description":"Saunders presents the first full biography of the southern U.S. Supreme\u003cbr\u003e Court justice who championed both the U.S. Constitution and states' rights.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e The life of John Archibald Campbell reflects nearly every\u003cbr\u003e major development of 19th-century American history. He participated either\u003cbr\u003e directly or indirectly in events ranging from the Indian removal process\u003cbr\u003e of the 1830s, to sectionalism and the Civil War, to Reconstruction and\u003cbr\u003e redemption. Although not a defender of slavery, he feared that abrupt abolition\u003cbr\u003e would produce severe economic and social dislocation. He urged southerners\u003cbr\u003e to reform their labor system and to prepare for the eventual abolition\u003cbr\u003e of slavery. In the early 1850s he proposed a series of reforms to strengthen\u003cbr\u003e slave families and to educate the slaves so as to prepare them for assimilation\u003cbr\u003e into society as productive citizens. These views distinguished him from\u003cbr\u003e many southerners who steadfastly maintained the sanctity of the peculiar\u003cbr\u003e institution.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Born and schooled in Georgia, Campbell moved to Montgomery,\u003cbr\u003e Alabama, in the early 1830s, where he joined a successful law practice.\u003cbr\u003e He served in the Alabama legislature for a brief period and then moved\u003cbr\u003e with his family to Mobile to establish a law practice. In 1853 Campbell\u003cbr\u003e was appointed an associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. His concurring\u003cbr\u003e opinion in the Dred Scott case in 1857 derived not from the standpoint\u003cbr\u003e of protecting slavery but from an attempt to return political power to\u003cbr\u003e the states. As the sectional crisis gathered heat, Campbell counseled moderation.\u003cbr\u003e He became widely detested in the North because of his defense of states'\u003cbr\u003e rights, and he was distrusted in the South because of his moderate views\u003cbr\u003e on slavery and secession. In May 1861 Campbell resigned from the Court\u003cbr\u003e and later became the Confederacy's assistant secretary of war. After the\u003cbr\u003e war, Campbell moved his law practice to New Orleans. Upon his death in\u003cbr\u003e 1889, memorial speakers in Washington, D.C., and New Orleans recognized\u003cbr\u003e him as one of the nation's most gifted lawyers and praised his vast learning\u003cbr\u003e and mastery of both the common law and the civil law.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e In this first full biography of Campbell, Robert Saunders,\u003cbr\u003e Jr., reveals the prevalence of anti-secession views prior to the Civil\u003cbr\u003e War and covers both the judicial aspects and the political history of this\u003cbr\u003e crucial period in southern history.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"University of Alabama Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47129946620144,"sku":"9780817391546","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780817391546_p0.jpg?v=1763749290","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780817391546","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}