Albert Taylor Bledsoe | |
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| Born | November 9, 1809 |
| Died | December 8, 1877 (aged 68) Alexandria, Virginia (another source says Baltimore, Maryland) |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | United States Military Academy Kenyon College, Ohio |
| Occupation(s) | educator, attorney, author, and clergyman |
| Political party | Whig Party (United States) |
| Spouse | Harriet Coxe (married in 1836) |
| Parent(s) | Moses Owsley Bledsoe and Sophia Childress Taylor |
| Relatives | Margaret Coxe (sister-in-law) |
Albert Taylor Bledsoe (November 9, 1809 – December 8, 1877) was an American Episcopal priest, attorney, professor of mathematics, and officer in the Confederate army and was best known as a staunch defender of slavery and, after the South lost the American Civil War, an architect of the Lost Cause.[1][2] He was the author of Liberty and Slavery (1856), "the most extensive philosophical treatment of slavery ever produced by a Southern academic", which defended slavery laws as ensuring proper societal order.[3]
- ^ Terry A. Barnhart, Albert Taylor Bledsoe: Defender of the Old South and Architect of the Lost Cause (Louisiana State University Press; 2011)
- ^ David S. Reynolds, Abe:Abraham Lincoln in His Times, New York: Penguin Press, 2020, page 108. Bledsoe was "one of the main architects of the Lost Cause."
- ^ Brophy, Alfred L. (2016). University, Court, and Slave: Pro-Slavery Thought in Southern Colleges and Courts and the Coming of Civil War. Oxford University Press. p. 89. ISBN 9780190263614.