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The next year he published The American Slave Code in Theory and Practice. [1] That book previewed discussions of "law in books" and "law in action" made by the legal realists. [2] It also directly countered proslavery writing that increasingly justified slavery on economic grounds. Goodell countered such arguments in two ways.
The slave codes were laws relating to slavery and enslaved people, ... Goodell, William (1853). The American Slave Code in Theory and Practice: Its Distinctive ...
William Goodell contributed his formulation of the Constitutional argument against slavery which was grounded in his interpretation of multiple provisions: [3] The Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment; The Guarantee Clause (provided for all states a republican form of government, republican government is inconsistent with slavery).
This method proved effective at gaining support for abolitionism, since slave-owners could not dispute their own words no matter how poorly it reflected on their character. Other works inspired in part by American Slavery as It Is included William Goodell 's The American Slave Code in Theory and Practice , and Charles Dickens ' American Notes ...
"Auction at Richmond" (Picture of Slavery in the United States of America by Rev. George Bourne, published by Edwin Hunt in Middletown, Conn., 1834)This is a bibliography of works regarding the internal or domestic slave trade in the United States (1776–1865, with a measurable increase in activity after 1808, following the Act Prohibiting Importation of Slaves).
Another group, including Smith and William Goodell, continued to eschew cross-party cooperation. Instead, they proposed that the Liberty Party should embrace other popular reform causes in order to appeal to a broader swath of the electorate. This group organized the Liberty League to promote their platform and candidates within the Liberty Party.
The book directly challenged the long-held conclusions that American slavery was unprofitable, a moribund institution, inefficient, and extremely harsh for the typical slave. [2] The authors proposed that slavery before the Civil War was economically efficient, especially in the case of the South, which grew commodity crops such as cotton ...
William, Goodell (1936). A Full statement of the reasons which were in part offered to the committee of the legislature of Massachusetts : on the fourth and eighth of March, showing why there should be no penal laws enacted, and no condemnatory resolutions passed by the legislature, respecting abolitionits [sic] and anti-slavery societies.