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050 00 $aKF4545.S5$bW59 2018
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100 1 $aWilentz, Sean,$eauthor.
245 10 $aNo property in man :$bslavery and antislavery at the nation's founding /$cSean Wilentz.
264 1 $aCambridge, Massachusetts :$bHarvard University Press,$c2018.
264 4 $c©2018
300 $axviii, 350 pages ;$c22 cm.
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier
490 1 $aThe Nathan I. Huggins lectures
500 $aSeries taken from half title.
520 $aAmericans revere the Constitution even as they argue fiercely over its original toleration of racial slavery. Some historians have charged that slaveholders actually enshrined human bondage at the nation's founding. Sean Wilentz shares the dismay but sees the Constitution and slavery differently. Although the proslavery side won important concessions, he asserts, antislavery impulses also influenced the framers' work. Far from covering up a crime against humanity, the Constitution restricted slavery's legitimacy under the new national government. In time, that limitation would open the way for the creation of an antislavery politics that led to Southern secession, the Civil War, and Emancipation. Wilentz's controversial reconsideration upends orthodox views of the Constitution. He describes the document as a tortured paradox that abided slavery without legitimizing it. This paradox lay behind the great political battles that fractured the nation over the next seventy years. As Southern Fire-eaters invented a proslavery version of the Constitution, antislavery advocates, including Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass, proclaimed an antislavery version based on the framers' refusal to validate property in man. No Property in Man invites fresh debate about the political and legal struggles over slavery that began during the Revolution and concluded with the Confederacy's defeat. It drives straight to the heart of the most contentious and enduring issue in all of American history.--$cProvided by publisher.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aSlavery, property, and emancipation in Revolutionary America -- The federal convention and the curse of heaven -- Slavery, antislavery, and the struggle for ratification -- To the Missouri Crisis -- Antislavery, the Constitution, and the coming of the Civil War.
650 0 $aSlavery$xLaw and legislation$zUnited States.
650 0 $aAntislavery movements$zUnited States.
650 0 $aConstitutional history$zUnited States.
650 7 $aAntislavery movements.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst00810800
650 7 $aConstitutional history.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst00875777
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651 7 $aUnited States.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01204155
830 0 $aNathan I. Huggins lectures.
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