St. George Tucker’s Followers (1)

St. George Tucker

Born

in Port Royal, Bermuda

July 10, 1752

Died

November 10, 1827

Genre

Nonfiction

edit data

St. George Tucker (July 10, 1752 – November 10, 1827), born in Bermuda, was a lawyer and, after the American Revolution, a professor of law at the College of William & Mary. He notably increased the requirements for a law degree at the college, as he believed lawyers needed deep educations. He served as a judge of the General Court of Virginia and later on the Court of Appeals.

Following the American Revolutionary War, Tucker supported the gradual emancipation of slaves, which he proposed to the state legislature in a pamphlet published in 1796.[1] He wrote an American edition of Blackstone's "Commentaries" that became a valuable reference work for many American lawyers and law students in the early 19th century. President James Madison in ...more

Combine Editions
St. George Tucker’s books

Average rating: 3.91 · 69 ratings · 12 reviews · 31 distinct works

	VIEW OF THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES by St. George Tucker, Clyde N. Wilson (Editor) 4.44 avg rating — 16 ratings — published 1998 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Dissertation on Slavery With a Proposal for the Gradual Abolition of it, in the State of Virginia 3.43 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2011 — 31 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Hansford: A Tale of Bacon's Rebellion really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2009 — 42 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Blackstone's Commentaries: With Notes of Reference to the Constitution and Laws, of the Federal Government of the United States, and of the Commonwealth of Virginia : In Five 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Notes of Reference Appended to Blackstone’s Commentaries (1803) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2011	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	St. George Tucker's Law Reports and Selected Papers, 1782-1825 (Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press) by St. George Tucker (Editor), Charles F. Hobson (Editor), Joan S. Lovelace (Editor) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2013 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Probationary Odes of Jonathan Pindar, Esq.: A Cousin of Peter's, and Candidate for the Post of Poet Laureat to the C.U.S. 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2012 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A dissertation on slavery with a proposal for the gradual abolition of it in the state of Virginia 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2013 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Cautionary hints to Congress respecting the sale of the western lands, belonging to the United States 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2015 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Dissertation on Slavery 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2008 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

More books by St. George Tucker…

Quotes by St. George Tucker (?)

“The purchaser therefore calculated not upon the value of the labour of his slave only, but, if a female, he regarded her as "the fruitful mother of an hundred more:" and many of these unfortunate people have there been in this state, whose descendants even in the compass of two or three generations have gone near to realize the calculation.—The great increase of slavery in the southern, in proportion to the northern states in the union, is therefore not attributable, solely, to the effect of sentiment, but to natural causes; as well as those considerations of profit, which”
― St. George Tucker, Dissertation on Slavery With a Proposal for the Gradual Abolition of it, in the State of Virginia

0 likes

St. George Tucker’s Followers (1)

St. George Tucker

Combine EditionsSt. George Tucker’s books

Combine Editions
St. George Tucker’s books