No Property in Man: Slavery and Antislavery at the Nation's Founding
- ISBN-10
- 0674916050
- ISBN-13
- 9780674916050
- Series
- No Property in Man
- Category
- History
- Pages
- 280
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2018-09-06
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Author
- Sean Wilentz
Description
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.
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