Self-Evident Truths: Contesting Equal Rights from the Revolution to the Civil War

by Richard D. Brown

Book Overview

From a distinguished historian, a detailed and compelling examination of how the early Republic struggled with the idea that "all men are created equal"

How did Americans in the generations following the Declaration of Independence translate its lofty ideals into practice? In this broadly synthetic work, distinguished historian Richard Brown shows that despite its founding statement that "all men are created equal," the early Republic...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 030019711X
• ISBN13: 9780300197112
• Release Date: March 2017
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 2.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.4" x 9.3"