The slaveholding republic : an account of the United States government's relations to slavery /

"Many leading historians have argued that the Constitution of the United States was a proslavery document. But this book refutes this claim in a landmark history that stretches from the Continental Congress to the Presidency of Abraham Lincoln. The book shows that the Constitution itself was mo...

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Main Authors: Fehrenbacher, Don E. (Don Edward), 1920-1997, McAfee, Ward (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, 2001.
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