References

Primary Sources

Anderson, Quinton to Thomas Ruffin, 15 January 1822, Thomas Ruffin Papers, Collection 641, Southern Historical Collection, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Articles of Agreement between Benjamin Chambers and Thomas Ruffin, 26 October 1821, Thomas Ruffin Papers, Collection 641, Southern Historical Collection, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Murphey, Archibald to Thomas Ruffin, 3 June 1824, Thomas Ruffin Papers, Collection 641, Southern Historical Collection, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Purchase of Negroes, July 1825, Thomas Ruffin Papers, Collection 641, Southern Historical Collection, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Ruffin, Thomas, Letter to Anne Ruffin, 29 January 1833, Thomas Ruffin Papers, Collection 641, Southern Historical Collection, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Ruffin, Thomas, Letter to Archibald Murphey, 29 October 1831, Thomas Ruffin Papers, Collection 641, Southern Historical Collection, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Ruffin, Thomas, “Opinion in the State v. Mann.” Vol 4 of The Papers of Thomas Ruffin, edited by J.G. de Roulhac Hamilton, 249-51. Raleigh: Edwards & Broughton Printing Co., 1920.

Ruffin, Thomas, “The State v. John Mann.” Vol 4 of The Papers of Thomas Ruffin, edited by J.G. de Roulhac Hamilton, 254-57. Raleigh: Edwards & Broughton Printing Co., 1920.

Ruffin, Thomas, “The State v. Mann.” Vol 4 of The Papers of Thomas Ruffin, edited by J.G. de Roulhac Hamilton, 251-54. Raleigh: Edwards & Broughton Printing Co., 1920.

Sale of Negroes in Alabama, 1825, Thomas Ruffin Papers, Collection 641, Southern Historical Collection, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Secondary Sources

Brophy, Alfred L. “Thomas Ruffin: Of Moral Philosophy and Monuments.” North Carolina Law Review 87, no. 3 (March 2009): 799-854.

Greene, Sally. “State v. Mann Exhumed.” North Carolina Law Review 87, no. 3 (March 2009): 701-56.

Hadden, Sally. “Judging Slavery: Thomas Ruffin and State v. Mann.” Local Matters: Race, Crime and Justice in the Nineteenth Century South, edited by Christopher Waldrep and Donald G. Neiman, 1-28. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2001.

Muller, Eric L. “Judging Thomas Ruffin and the Hindsight Defense.” North Carolina Law Review 87, no. 3 (March 2009): 757-798.

Tushnet, Mark. Slave Law in the American South: State v. Mann in History and Literature. Lawrence: University of Kansas Press, 2003.

Wynn, James A. “State v. Mann: Judicial Choice or Judicial Duty.” North Carolina Law Review 87, no. 3 (March 2009): 991-1005.