| 词条 | Albert Taylor Bledsoe |
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| name = Albert Taylor Bledsoe | image = Picture of Albert Taylor Bledsoe.jpg | caption = | birth_date = {{birth date|1809|11|9}} | birth_place = Frankfort, Kentucky | death_date = {{death date and age|1877|12|8|1809|11|9}} | death_place = Alexandria, Virginia (another source says Baltimore, Maryland) | education = | alma_mater = United States Military Academy Kenyon College, Ohio | occupation = educator, attorney, author, and clergyman | residence = | spouse = Harriet Coxe (married in 1836) | children = | parents = Moses Owsley Bledsoe and Sophia Childress Taylor | party = Whig Party (United States) | nationality = American | signature = }}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] 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.[2] Early life and educationBledsoe was born on November 9, 1809, in Frankfort, Kentucky, the oldest of five children of Moses Owsley Bledsoe and Sophia Childress Taylor (who was a relative of President Zachary Taylor).[3] He was a cadet at the United States Military Academy at West Point from 1825 to 1830, where he was a fellow cadet of Jefferson Davis and Robert E. Lee.[3][4] After serving two years in the United States Army, he studied law and theology at Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio, and received his M.A. and LL.M. In 1836. he married Harriet Coxe of Burlington NJ, and they had seven children, four of whom survived childhood. His daughter was the author Sophia Bledsoe Herrick.[5] College professor and mathematician
Bledsoe in his lectures at the University of Virginia would frequently "interlard his demonstration of some difficult problem in differential or integral calculus—for example, the lemniscata of {{sic|Bernouilli|expected=Bernoulli}}—with some vigorous remarks in the doctrine of States' rights".[3] His book The Philosophy of Mathematics was one of the earliest American works on mathematics and includes chapters on Descartes, Leibnitz, and Newton. Bledsoe is perhaps best remembered for his treatise An Essay on Liberty and Slavery,[6] which presented an extended proslavery argument. Bledsoe argued that the natural state of humans was in society, not in nature, and that humans in society needed to have restraints on their actions. That is, he argued that liberty was greatest when humans were allowed to exercise only the amount of freedom they were naturally suited to. Some had to be restrained; others were entitled to freedom. ClergymanIn 1835, Bledsoe became an Episcopal minister and became an assistant to Bishop Smith of Kentucky. He abandoned his clerical career in 1838 because of his opposition to infant baptism. Later in life, he was ordained a Methodist minister in 1871, but he never took charge of a church.[7] He was a strenuous advocate of the doctrine of free will and his views are set forth in his book Examination of Edwards on the Will (1845). LawyerIn 1838, Bledsoe moved to Springfield, Illinois, where he was a law partner of Edward D. Baker, and where he practiced law in the same courts as Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas.[8] He practiced before the United States Supreme Court in Washington DC from 1840 to 1848.[7] Confederate officialIn 1861, Bledsoe received a commission as a colonel in the Confederate army, and later became Acting Assistant Secretary of War.[7] In 1863 he was sent to London for the purpose of researching various historical problems relating to the North-South conflict, as well as guiding British public opinion in favor of the Confederate cause. Southern apologistIn 1868 he moved back to the United States and published the Southern Review.[9] He was the "epitome of an unreconstructed Southerner" and published articles defending slavery and secession.[4] Writings
References1. ^Terry A. Barnhart, Albert Taylor Bledsoe: Defender of the Old South and Architect of the Lost Cause (Louisiana State University Press; 2011) 2. ^{{cite book|title=University, Court, and Slave: Pro-Slavery Thought in Southern Colleges and Courts and the Coming of Civil War|first=Alfred L.|last=Brophy|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=2016|isbn=9780190263614|page=89|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WlCsDAAAQBAJ&pg=PT89}} 3. ^1 2 {{Cite web |url=http://www.math.usma.edu/people/Rickey/dms/00602-Bledsoe.html |title=Archived copy |access-date=2009-05-23 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100712173201/http://www.math.usma.edu/people/Rickey/dms/00602-Bledsoe.html |archive-date=2010-07-12 |dead-url=yes |df= }} 4. ^1 {{cite web|url=http://www.answers.com/topic/albert-taylor-bledsoe|title=Answers – The Most Trusted Place for Answering Life's Questions|website=Answers.com|accessdate=7 November 2017}} 5. ^{{cite book|last=Hollis|first=C. Carroll|editor=Flora, Joseph M.|title=Southern writers: a biographical dictionary|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EpX4H4JdZOgC&pg=PA223|accessdate=18 January 2011|year=1979|publisher=LSU Press|isbn=978-0-8071-0390-6|pages=223–|chapter=Sophia Bledsoe Herrick}} 6. ^{{cite web|url=https://archive.org/details/essayonlibertysl01bled|title=An essay on liberty and slavery|first=Albert Taylor|last=Bledsoe|date=7 November 2017|publisher=Philadelphia, J.B. Lippincott & Co.|accessdate=7 November 2017|via=Internet Archive}} 7. ^1 2 {{dead link|date=November 2017}} 8. ^{{Cite web |url=http://www.math.usma.edu/people/Rickey/dms/00602-Bledsoe-U-VA.html |title=Archived copy |access-date=2009-05-23 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100714043436/http://www.math.usma.edu/people/Rickey/dms/00602-Bledsoe-U-VA.html |archive-date=2010-07-14 |dead-url=yes |df= }} 9. ^Mott, Frank L. (1938). "The Southern Review." In: A History of American Magazines, 1865–1885. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, p. 382. Further reading{{Refbegin|30em}}
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