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Bridging Revolutions: The Lives of Chief Justices Richmond Pearson and John Belton O'Neall

Bridging Revolutions: The Lives of Chief Justices Richmond Pearson and John Belton O'Neall

Ranney, Joseph A.

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Series: Southern Legal Studies

Biographies GeneralCivil War Period (1850-1877)General Law

ISBN10: 0820369829
ISBN13: 9780820369822
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Published: Jan 15 2025
Pages: 292
Weight: 0.96
Height: 0.66 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Bridging Revolutions examines the lives of North Carolina chief justice Richmond Pearson (1805-1878) and South Carolina chief justice John Belton O'Neall (1793-1863) and their impact on the South's transition from a slave to a free society. Joseph A. Ranney documents how the two judges fought to preserve the Union and protect basic civil rights for both white and Black southerners before and after the Civil War.

Pearson's and O'Neall's lives were marked by contrarianism and controversy. Prior to the Civil War, they took important steps to soften slave law during times marked by calls for more discipline and control of slaves. O'Neall, a committed Unionist, resisted his state's nullification movement during the 1830s and put an end

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