Evils of Necessity: Robert Goodloe Harper and the Moral Dilemma of Slavery : Transactions, APS

Robert Goodloe Harper (1765-1825), a prominent attorney & U.S. Congressman from S. Carolina & Maryland, was one of the most influential Federalists of the early national period. The South¿s leading proponent of the Jay Treaty, a framer of the Sedition Act, the powerful chairman of the House Ways & Means Comm., a dogged supported of Aaron Burr, an outspoken counsel for John Pickering & Samuel Chase, & 2-time failed V.P. candidate, Harper is traditionally remembered as an extreme example of unthinking, reactionary conservatism in an era of intense partisanship & bitter sectional conflict. In this revisionist account, Papenfuse reinterprets Harper¿s political philosophy in light of his personal struggle with the moral dilemma of slavery. Illustrations.Papenfuse, Eric is the author of 'Evils of Necessity: Robert Goodloe Harper and the Moral Dilemma of Slavery : Transactions, APS', published 2007 under ISBN 9781422373774 and ISBN 1422373770.