No Property in Man : : Slavery and Antislavery at the Nation’s Founding / / 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 Souther...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DTL Humanities 2020 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2018] ©2018 |
| Year of Publication: | 2018 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | The Nathan I. Huggins Lectures
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (280 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- A Note on Terminology
- 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