Slavery and the Founders
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15.85 history of America
1743-1826
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American legal history
antislavery movements
Author_Paul Finkelman
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constitutional history
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Esclavage Droit Etats-Unis Histoire
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founding fathers attitudes
fugitive slave law analysis
Geschichte 1750-1800
History
Jefferson
Northwest Ordinance impact
proslavery constitutional interpretation
Recht
Sklaverei
Slavernij
Slavery
Slavery Abolition History
Slavery Law and legislation
Slavery Law and legislation United States
Slavery Law and legislation United States History
Slavery United States
Slavery United States History
Thomas
United States
USA
Product details
- ISBN 9781563245916
- Weight: 453g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 15 Nov 1995
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Inc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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This text studies the attitudes of the founding "fathers" toward slavery. Specifically, it examines the views of Thomas Jefferson reflected in his life and writings and those of other founders as expressed in the Northwest Ordinance, the Constitutional Convention and the Constitution itself, and the fugitive slave legislation of the 1790s. The author contends: slavery fatally permeated the founding of the American republic; the original constitution was, as the abilitionists later maintained, "a covnenant with death"; and Jefferson's anti-slavery reputation is undeserved and most historians and biographers have prettified Jefferson's record on slavery.
Paul Finkelman is currently Visiting Professor at Chicago-Kent College of Law and the incoming Charlton W. Tebeau Distinguished Professor of American History at the University of Miami at Coral Gables.
