Slavery's Constitution: From Revolution to Ratification

by David Waldstreicher

Book Overview

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. Famously, the Constitution never mentions slavery. 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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0809094533
• ISBN13: 9780809094530
• Release Date: June 2009
• Publisher: Hill & Wang
• Length: 195 Pages
• Weight: 0.79 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 8.6"