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

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

Wilentz, Sean

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Series: Nathan I. Huggins Lectures, Book 18

19th Century United States HistoryGeneral Racism & Ethnic StudiesRevolutionary Period (1775-1800)

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ISBN10: 0674241428
ISBN13: 9780674241428
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: Sep 3 2019
Pages: 368
Weight: 0.75
Height: 1.00 Width: 5.40 Depth: 8.20
Language: English

Wilentz brings a lifetime of learning and a mastery of political history to this brilliant book.
--David W. Blight, author of Frederick Douglass

A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice
A Foreign Affairs Best Book of the Year

Americans revere the Constitution even as they argue fiercely over its original toleration of slavery. In this essential reconsideration of the creation and legacy of our nation's founding document, Sean Wilentz reveals the tortured compromises that led the Founders to abide slavery without legitimizing it, a deliberate ambiguity that fractured the nation seventy years later. Contesting the Southern proslavery version of the Constitution, Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass pointed to the framers' refusal to validate what they called property in man. No Property in Man has opened a fresh debate about the political and legal struggles over slavery that began during the Revolution and concluded with the Civil War. It drives straight to the heart of the single most contentious issue in all of American history.

Revealing and passionately argued...[Wilentz] insists that because the framers did not sanction slavery as a matter of principle, the antislavery legacy of the Constitution has been...'misconstrued' for over 200 years.

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