Slavery's Constitution: From Revolution to Ratification by David Waldstreicher

Slavery's Constitution: From Revolution to Ratification


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ISBN: 9781429959070 | 208 pages | 11 Mb

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Slavery's Constitution: From Revolution to Ratification David Waldstreicher
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux


Taking on decades of received wisdom, David Waldstreicher has written the first book to recognize slavery’s place at the heart of the U.S. Constitution. Famously, the Constitution never mentions slavery. And yet, of its eighty-four clauses, six were directly concerned with slaves and the interests of their owners. Five other clauses had implications for slavery that were considered and debated by the delegates to the 1787 Constitutional Convention and the citizens of the states during ratification. This “peculiar institution” was not a moral blind spot for America’s otherwise enlightened framers, nor was it the expression of a mere economic interest. Slavery was as important to ...

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