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
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Wilentz, Sean (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2018.
Colección:Nathan I. Huggins lectures.
Temas:
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.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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.

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