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James Philemon Holcombe

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352: 107: 376: 31: 194:. Holcombe's other public addresses include an address to the Virginia Historical Society on the American Revolution and an 1853 address to the University of Virginia alumni on the importance of education and slavery. During the secession crisis, Professor Holcombe delivered a speech to the voters of Albemarle County and then advocated secession in Richmond's 185:
in 1858 on slavery's consistency with natural law. Holcombe had a political theory based on ideas of hierarchy, which explicitly reversed Jefferson's theme from the Declaration of Independence that all people are created equal. He thought people were naturally unequal and that was his primary
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University of Virginia: Its History, Influence, Equipment and Characteristics, with Biographical Sketches and Portraits of Founders, Benefactors, Officers and Alumni
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Freehling, William W. and Craig M. Simpson. Showdown in Virginia: the 1861 Convention and the fate of the Union. 2010. ISBN 978-0-8139-2964-4, p. 62
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Alfred L. Brophy, University, Court, and Slave: Pro-Slavery Thought in Southern Colleges and Courts and the Coming of Civil War (2016): 68-72.
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Although his parents freed their slaves and later moved to Indiana, Holcombe spoke widely in favor of slavery. He delivered an address
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argument for slavery. This theme was also developed by Holcombe's UVA colleague
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Barringer, Paul Brandon; Garnett, James Mercer; Lewis, Rosewell Page (1904).
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Members of the Confederate House of Representatives from Virginia
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During the War, Holcombe represented his district in the
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Holcombe practiced law in Ohio including with partner
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Powhatan County
Virginia
Capon Springs, West Virginia
Yale University
University of Virginia Law School

Confederate
Powhatan County
Virginia
Lynchburg
Yale University
University of Virginia Law School
William Y. Gholson
An Introduction to Equity Jurisprudence
"Is Slavery Consistent With Natural Law?"
Albert Taylor Bledsoe
George Frederick Holmes
Secession Convention's
First Confederate Congress
Canada
American Civil War
Bellevue
Goode, Virginia
Bedford County, Virginia
Capon Springs, West Virginia



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