No property in man : slavery and antislavery at the nation's founding /
Americans revere the Constitution even as they argue fiercely over its original toleration of racial slavery. Some historians have charged that slaveholders actually enshrined human bondage at the nation's founding. Sean Wilentz shares the dismay but sees the Constitution and slavery differentl...
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| Language: | English |
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Cambridge, Massachusetts :
Harvard University Press,
[2018]
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| Series: | Nathan I. Huggins lectures.
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Table of Contents:
- Slavery, property, and emancipation in Revolutionary America
- The federal convention and the curse of heaven
- Slavery, antislavery, and the struggle for ratification
- To the Missouri Crisis
- Antislavery, the Constitution, and the coming of the Civil War.