No property in man : slavery and antislavery at the nation's founding / Sean Wilentz.
No property in man : slavery and antislavery at the nation's founding / Sean Wilentz.
No property in man : slavery and antislavery at the nation's founding / Sean Wilentz.
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Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2018.
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G 2019/3259
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English
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xviii, 350 pages ; 22 cm.
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text
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unmediated
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volume
Contents
Slavery, 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.
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Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2018.
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Massachusetts
Date Published
2018.
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Americans 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 concessio...
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No property in man : slavery and antislavery at the nation's founding / Sean Wilentz.
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The Nathan I. Huggins lectures
Series taken from publisher's website.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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©2018
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G 2019/3259
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74VKVx4mB38Z
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKVx4mB38Z
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0674972228 hardcover alkaline paper
9780674972223 hardcover alkaline paper
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342.73087
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991024249918502626
