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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Wilentz, Sean (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2018.
Series:Nathan I. Huggins lectures.
Subjects:
Slavery > Law and legislation > United States.
Antislavery movements > United States.
Constitutional history > United States.
Mouvements antiesclavagistes > États-Unis.
Histoire constitutionnelle > États-Unis.
LAW > Constitutional.
LAW > Public.
HISTORY / United States / Revolutionary Period (1775-1800)
Antislavery movements.
Constitutional history.
Slavery > Law and legislation.
United States.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
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.

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