Judge Thomas Ruffin and the Shadows of Southern History
An article from Southern Cultures 17:3, The Memory Issue
By Sally Greene
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Distributed for the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Center for the Study of the American South
by Sally Greene
North Carolina’s State Capitol still houses a statue to one of southern history’s most notorious pro-slave-owner judges. Why?
“Ruffin was ideologically sympathetic to the Confederate cause and remained so to his death. ‘The power of the master must be absolute,’ Ruffin wrote in State v. Mann (1829), ‘to render the submission of the slave perfect.’ State v. Mann became the most notorious opinion in the entire body of slavery law.”
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Sally Greene is an independent scholar whose interests include the law, literature, and history of the American South. Her essays have appeared in the Southern Quarterly, the Mississippi Quarterly, the Journal of Modern Literature, and the North Carolina Law Review. She is Associate Director of the UNC Center for the Study of the American South.
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