Read Slavery's Constitution: From Revolution to Ratification by David Waldstreicher Online
Read [David Waldstreicher Book] # Slavery's Constitution: From Revolution to Ratification Online * PDF eBook or Kindle ePUB free. Slavery's Constitution: From Revolution to Ratification And yet, of its eighty-four clauses, six were directly concerned with slaves and the interests of their owners. Five other clauses had implications for slavery that were considered and debated by the delegates to the 1787 Constitutional Convention and the citizens of the states during ratification. Taking on decades of received wisdom, David Waldstreicher has written the first book to recognize slavery’s place at the heart of the U.S. Constitution. Slavery was as important to the making of
| Title | : | Slavery's Constitution: From Revolution to Ratification |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.69 (542 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0809094533 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 208 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-01-06 |
| Language | : | English |
"Thoughtful" according to R. Albin. A concise and mildly polemical book discussing the role of the Constitution as a shield for slavery in the early American republic. Waldstreicher's point of departure is historiographic in that he points out that discussions of the role of slavery figure very little in several of the standard discussions of the American revolution and the formation of the Constitution such as Bernard Bailyn's great Ideological Origins of the American Revolution and Gordon Wood's magisterial The Creation. "Decent read. Makes a strong argument about how integral" according to Soul Heart. Decent read. Makes a strong argument about how integral the role of slavery was to the revolutionary period and the creation of the constitution.. K. E. Eisenhart said which are also good, but this author challenges the take of other. For those wishing an insightful look at the history of the Constitution, this is a keeper. There are others, which are also good, but this author challenges the take of other historians and defends himself well. If you love American history, this is a must.
Sure to spark interest and debate, Slavery’s Constitution is an immensely engaging and valuable contribution to the literature on the founding of the American nation.” —Annette Gordon-Reed. “Was the American Constitution as originally ratified a proslavery document? In this unflinching, deeply intelligent, and persuasive work, David Waldstreicher answers yes
And yet, of its eighty-four clauses, six were directly concerned with slaves and the interests of their owners. Five other clauses had implications for slavery that were considered and debated by the delegates to the 1787 Constitutional Convention and the citizens of the states during ratification. Taking on decades of received wisdom, David Waldstreicher has written the first book to recognize slavery’s place at the heart of the U.S. Constitution. Slavery was as important to the making of the Constitution as the Constitution was to the survival of slavery. By tracing slavery from before the revolution, through the Constitution’s framing, and into the public debate that followed, Waldstreicher rigorously shows that slavery was not only actively discussed behind the closed and locked doors of the Constitutional Convention, but that it was also deftly woven into the Constitution itself. This “peculiar institution” was not a moral blind spot for America’s otherwise enlightened framers, nor was it the expression of a mere econom
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