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No Property in Man: Slavery and Antislavery at the Nation’s Founding, With a New Preface

By Sean Wilentz

Book information

Publisher
Harvard University Press
Year
2019
ISBN
9780674244092
DOI
10.4159/9780674244092
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
3 MB (3636403 bytes)
Pages
368\368
Library
degruyter.com
Time added
2023-08-22 11:10:57

Description

Driving straight to the heart of the most contentious issue in American history, Sean Wilentz argues controversially that, far from concealing a crime against humanity, the U.S. Constitution limited slavery’s legitimacy—a limitation which in time inspired the antislavery politics that led to Southern secession, the Civil War, and Emancipation.

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