Dark Bargain: Slavery, Profits, and the Struggle for the Constitution by Lawrence Goldstone

Dark Bargain: Slavery, Profits, and the Struggle for the Constitution

Lawrence Goldstone

274 pages first pub 2005 (editions)

nonfiction history politics informative reflective slow-paced
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On September 17, 1787, at the State House in Philadelphia, thirty-nine men from twelve states, after months of often bitter debate, signed America's Constitution. Yet very few of the delegates, at the start, had had any intention of creating a nat...

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