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Title: No Property in Man : Slavery and Antislavery at the Nation’s Founding, With a New Preface
Description: “Wilentz brings a lifetime of learning and a mastery of political history to this brilliant book.”—David W. Blight, author of Frederick DouglassA New York Times Book Review Editors'ChoiceA Foreign Affairs Best Book of the YearAmericans revere the Constitution even as they argue fiercely over its original toleration of slavery. In this essential reconsideration of the creation and legacy of our nation's founding document, Sean Wilentz reveals the tortured compromises that led the Founders to abide slavery without legitimizing it, a deliberate ambiguity that fractured the nation seventy years later. Contesting the Southern proslavery version of the Constitution, Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass pointed to the framers'refusal to validate what they called “property in man.” No Property in Man has opened a fresh debate about the political and legal struggles over slavery that began during the Revolution and concluded with the Civil War. It drives straight to the heart of the single most contentious issue in all of American history.“Revealing and passionately argued…[Wilentz] insists that because the framers did not sanction slavery as a matter of principle, the antislavery legacy of the Constitution has been…‘misconstrued'for over 200 years.”—Khalil Gibran Muhammad, New York Times“Wilentz's careful and insightful analysis helps us understand how Americans who hated slavery, such as Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass, could come to see the Constitution as an ally in their struggle.”—Eric Foner
Authors: Sean Wilentz
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Subjects: Constitutional history--United States, Antislavery movements--United States, Slavery--Law and legislation--United States
Categories: HISTORY / United States / Revolutionary Period (1775-1800), LAW / Constitutional, LAW / Legal History, POLITICAL SCIENCE / American Government / Legislative Branch, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Slavery
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