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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Wilentz, Sean, autor (autor)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press 2018.
Colección:EBSCO Academic eBook Collection.
The Nathan I. Huggins lectures.
Acceso en línea:Conectar con la versión electrónica
Ver en Universidad de Navarra:https://innopac.unav.es/record=b47066647*spi
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.