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

• VerfasserIn: Wilentz, Sean,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2021]; ©2019
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (368 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Preface to the Paperback Edition --; Preface --; Introduction --; 1 Slavery, Property, and Emancipation in Revolutionary America --; 2 The Federal Convention and the Curse of Heaven --; 3 Slavery, Antislavery, and the Struggle for Ratification --; 4 To the Missouri Crisis --; 5 Antislavery, the Constitution, and the Coming of the Civil War --; Epilogue --; Notes --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780674244092
• DOI: 10.4159/9780674244092
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Sean Wilentz.

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.