No Property in Man: Slavery and Antislavery at the Nation's Founding by Sean Wilentz

No Property in Man: Slavery and Antislavery at the Nation's Founding

Sean Wilentz

280 pages first pub 2018 (editions)

nonfiction history politics challenging informative reflective fast-paced
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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 ...

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