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No property in man : slavery and antislavery at the nation's founding /

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 differentl...

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Main Author:	Wilentz, Sean (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, [2018]
Series:	Nathan I. Huggins lectures.
Subjects:	Slavery > Law and legislation > United States. Antislavery movements > United States. Constitutional history > United States.

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