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Excerpt from Joseph Wright Taylor, "A Plea for the University of Alabama: An Address Delivered Before the Erosophic and Philomathic Societies of the University of Alabama on their Anniversary Occasion, August 9, 1847"

Speech given in the Rotunda on The University of Alabama campus that outlines the many roles the institution could play in the state of Alabama and the country. As part of its mission, Taylor explicitly discusses its place as an institution of proslavery education and advocacy.

Garland address, The Independent Monitor, 10 Mar 1860

A proslavery address by Professor Garland. This is the first of three in a series of public lectures. The Independent Monitor, a Tuscaloosa newspaper, carried the text of each address.

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