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American economist

Thomas Roderick Dew


13th President of the College of William & Mary
In office 1836–1846
Preceded by	Adam Empie
Succeeded by	Robert Saunders, Jr.

Personal details
Built-in	1802 King and Queen Canton, Virginia
Died	1846
Educational activity	The College of William & Mary
Occupation	Professor of History, Metaphysics, and Political Economy, College of William & Mary
Known for	Proslavery writings

Thomas Roderick Dew (1802–1846) was a professor at and then president of The College of William & Mary.^[1] He was an influential pro-slavery advocate.

Biography [edit]

Thomas Dew was born in Male monarch and Queen Canton, Virginia, in 1802, son of Captain Thomas Dew and Lucy Gatewood Dew. His begetter was a Revolutionary State of war soldier and founder of Dewsville, a prosperous plantation near Newtown, King and Queen County. He attended The College of William & Mary, graduating in 1820, and subsequently spent several years studying in Europe.^[2] ^: 1110 He was a professor of history, metaphysics, and political economy at William & Mary from 1827 to 1836, so President until his death from bronchitis in 1846.^[ane] He twice declined invitations to run for political part, as well as invitations to teach at S Carolina College (today the Academy of Due south Carolina) and the Academy of Virginia.^[three] Shortly before his death, he married Natalia Hay. He died on their honeymoon, in Paris; his remains were later moved to the crypt under the Wren Chapel on the William & Mary campus.^[4] His descendant Charles B. Dew is a professor of Southern history at Williams College, and wrote in The Making of a Racist (2016) of his Southern family's tradition of racism.^[5]

Dew came to national prominence in 1828 when he attacked the tariff passed that yr (also known as the "Tariff of Abominations"). He was a proponent of free trade, arguing that export taxes benefited Northern manufacturers at the expense of Southern planters. He supported state banks over a national bank, stating that centralized banking would give the authorities besides much control over the economy.^[1] Dew's largest volume was the Assimilate of the Laws, Customs, Manners, and Institutions of Ancient and Mod Nations (1853).^[2] A source was P. Austin Nuttall's 1840 Classical and Archaeological Lexicon. ^[six]

Dew and slavery [edit]

In 1832, he published a review of the historic slavery contend of 1831–32 in the Virginia Full general Assembly, A Review of the Debates in the Legislature of 1831 and 1832, which went far towards putting a stop to a movement, then bold considerable proportions, to proclaim the end of slavery in Virginia.^[7] ^: 21–47 The Virginia Legislature'south contend was a response to Nat Turner'due south slave rebellion of August 1831.^[8] "Like many other white southerners, he argued that whites and freed blacks could not alive aslope one other in peace.... Dew dismissed colonization of freed American blacks in Africa equally prohibitively expensive and logistically impractical, and he noted that the deportation of blacks would prevent Virginia from profiting as 'a negro raising state for other states' of the S."^[3] While his position was convincing to many Southern readers, Jesse Burton Harrison, of Lynchburg, Virginia, wrote a robust response that argued that colonization (returning slaves to Africa) was possible and that slavery was economically inefficient.^[9]

In his inaugural oral communication every bit President at William & Mary, "he admonished young planters to resist fanatics who wished to eliminate slavery. Dew emphasized the importance of a broad-based liberal arts educational activity but singled out morals and politics as the about pregnant subjects of study."^[three]

Dew was well respected in the Due south; his widely distributed writings helped to ostend pro-slavery public stance. His work has been compared to that of the Southern surgeon and medical authority Samuel A. Cartwright, who dedicated slavery and invented the "diseases" of drapetomania (the "madness" that makes slaves want to run away), and dysaesthesia aethiopica ("rascality"), both of which were "cured" with beatings. Dew'south 1833 Review was republished in 1849, and collected in The Pro-Slavery Argument, together with writings by Harper, Hammond and Simms.^[10]

Many people at the fourth dimension credited Dew with the defeat of the proposal to finish slavery in Virginia in the 1830s. He was opposed to fifty-fifty gradual emancipation. Dew's teaching and his writings influenced the following generations, which opposed Reconstruction and created Jim Crow.^[xi] ^{: 1137–1139}

Dew on men and women [edit]

In the Lexicon of Virginia Biography, Dew's views on the differences between the sexes are described as follows:

Dew characterized women as modest, passive, virtuous, and religiously devout, attributing these traits to women'south physical weakness, which rendered them dependent on male goodwill. He too asserted that men, across all cultures and historical periods, were intellectually superior to women, just he blamed the disparity on differences in the substance and duration of education rather than on unequal natural endowments. Dew argued that it was advisable to deny suffrage to women considering their intense focus on their own families impeded their ability to comprehend broader political developments.^[3]

He described the hardships faced by men in the market and the well-nigh savage strength needed to survive in such a competitive atmosphere. He stated that backbone and disrespect are man's attributes. For Dew, women were dependent and weak, but a jump of irresistible power.

Works by Thomas R. Dew [edit]

Lectures on the restrictive system : delivered to the senior political class of William and Mary College. Richmond. 1829.
Free Trade Convention (to be annexed to Medico. No. 82.) : communication of Wm. Harper and Thomas R. Dew, in relation to the memorial of the committee of the Free Trade Convention against the tariff. Business firm of Representatives?. February 13, 1832.
Abolitionism of slavery : review of the debate in the Virginia legislature, 1831-'32. Washington, D.C.: Duff Green. 1833.
- An Essay on Slavery (2nd ed.). Richmond, VA. 1849. (The "first edition" is the 1833 publication cited above.)
- "The Pro-slavery argument: equally maintained by the almost distinguished writers of the southern states : Containing the several essays on the subject, of Chancellor Harper, Governor Hammond, Dr. Simms, and Professor Dew". Philadelphia. 1853.
- Torr, James D., ed. (2004). "Emancipation Is Impractical". Slavery . Greenhaven Printing. ISBN073771705X . Retrieved December 3, 2018.
Z. Ten. W. (May 1835). "Dissertation on the Characteristic Differences of the Sexes, and Adult female's Position and Influence in Society, No. I". Southern Literary Messenger. Vol. ane, no. 9. pp. 493–512.
- Unsigned (July 1835). "Dissertation on the Characteristic Differences between the Sexes, and Adult female's Position and Influence in Society, No. II". Southern Literary Messenger. Vol. i, no. 11. pp. 621–632.
- Unsigned (August 1835). "Dissertation on the Characteristic Differences between the Sexes, and on the Position and Influence of Adult female in Order, No. Three". Southern Literary Messenger. Vol. 1, no. 12. pp. 672–691.
The great question of the twenty-four hour period letter from President Thomas R. Dew, of William and Mary college, Virginia, to a representative in Congress from that country : on the bailiwick of financial policy of the administration ... Washington, D.C.: T. Allen. 1840. (xvi folio pamphlet)
A assimilate of the laws, customs, manners, and institutions of the ancient and modern nations. New York: D. Appleton & Company. 1853.

Briefer pieces, messages, speeches [edit]

Memorial of a commission appointed past the Gratuitous Trade Convention : held in Philadelphia in September and October, 1831, upon the subject of the present tariff of duties. 1832. OCLC 34565448. With William Harper and Albert Gallatin.
"Essay on the interest of money and the policy of laws against usury". Farmers' Register. 1834.
"An Address on the Influence of the Federative Republican Organisation of Authorities Upon Literature and the Evolution of Graphic symbol". Southern Literary Messenger. Vol. 2, no. 4. March 1836. pp. 261–282.
An address delivered before the students of William and Mary, at the opening of the college, on Mon, October 10th, 1836. Richmond, VA: T.W. White. 1836.
The bully question of the day : alphabetic character from President Thomas R. Dew, of William and Mary college, Virginia, to a representative in Congress from that country : on the bailiwick of financial policy of the assistants ... Washington: T. Allen. 1840. Reprint from Washington paper The Madisonian. Selected Americana from Sabin's Dictionary of books relating to America ; fiches A-11,071-11,072).
A letter of President Thomas R. Dew to Professor John Millington. Williamsburg, VA: King and Queen Press. 1964. A letter to Professor Millington dated Sept. 21, 1837, requesting him 'to buy 2 or 300$ worth of books for Wm. & Mary College Library'.

Archival textile [edit]

Dew's family papers^[12] and papers from his time as president of the College of William and Mary^[thirteen] tin can be constitute at the Special Collections Research Heart at the College of William and Mary.

Media [edit]

A non-existent volume past Dew, Inequality Is the Basis of Society, appears in the spaghetti western Sabata (1969), in which the book is read by a villain. A character reads a quotation from it: "The responsibility of command is to utilize lesser men."

References [edit]

^ ^a ^b ^c Ely, Melvin Patrick; Loux, Jennifer R. "Thomas R. Dew (1802–1846)". Encyclopedia Virginia/Lexicon of Virginia Biography. Archived from the original on ii April 2015. Retrieved 9 March 2015.
^ ^a ^b Brophy, Alfred Fifty. (2008). "Because William and Mary's History with Slavery: The Instance of President Thomas R. Dew" (PDF). William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal. 16: 1091–1139. Archived (PDF) from the original on Feb 9, 2014. Retrieved Nov 22, 2018.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Ely, Melvin Patrick; Loux, Jennifer R.; Lexicon of Virginia Biography (2015). "Thomas R. Dew (1802–1846)". Encyclopedia Virginia. Virginia Humanities in partnership with the Library of Virginia.
^ Swem Library Special Collections Inquiry Center Archives. "Papers, ca. 1830-1967". Archived from the original on July twenty, 2021. Retrieved Nov fifteen, 2018.
^ Pitts, Leonard (September 2, 2016). "A white Southerner searches for the source of his family's racism". Washington Mail service. Archived from the original on November 25, 2018. Retrieved June ten, 2018.
^ Nuttall, P. Austin (1840). A classical and archaeological dictionary of the manners, customs, laws, institutions, arts, etc. of the celebrated nations of artifact, and of the middle ages. To which is prefixed A synoptical and chronological view of ancient history. London: Whittaker. OCLC 2667864.
^ Brophy, Alfred Fifty. (2016). University, Court, and Slave: Prolsavery Thought in Southern Courts and Colleges and the Coming of Civil State of war. Oxford Academy Press. ISBN978-0190625931.
^ Brophy, Alfred L. (June 2013). "The Nat Turner Trials". North Carolina Law Review. 91: 1817–80. SSRN 2281519.
^ Harrison, Jesse Burton (1832). Review of the slave question : extracted from the American Quarterly Review, Dec. 1832, based on the speech of Th. Marshall, of Fauquier, showing that slavery is the essential hindrance to the prosperity of the slave-property states : with particular reference to Virginia, though applicative to other states where slavery exists. By a Virginian. American Quarterly Review. Richmond, Printed by T.Westward. White.
^ Harper, William; Hammond, James Henry; Dew, Thomas Roderick; Simms, William Gilmore (1853). The Pro-Slavery Argument. Philadelphia: Lippincott, Grambo, & Co. Archived from the original on 2014-07-07. Retrieved 2016-04-14 .
^ Brophy, Alfred Fifty. (2008). "Considering William and Mary's History with Slavery: The Case of President Thomas Roderick Dew" (PDF). William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal. Vol. 16. pp. 1091–1139. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2020-07-09. Retrieved 2018-12-12 .
^ "Dew Family unit Papers". Special Collections Enquiry Centre, Earl Gregg Swem Library, College of William and Mary. Archived from the original on 27 June 2010. Retrieved 25 January 2011.
^ "Role of the President. Thomas Roderick Dew". Special Collections Enquiry Centre, Earl Gregg Swem Library, College of William and Mary. Archived from the original on 26 June 2010. Retrieved 25 January 2011.

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