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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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.
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