Slavery's Fugitives and the Making of the United States Constitution

by Timothy Messer-Kruse

Slavery's Fugitives and the Making of the United States Constitution unearths a long-hidden factor that led to the Constitutional Convention in 1787. While historians have generally acknowledged that patriot leaders assembled in response to postwar economic chaos, the threat of popular insurgencies, and the inability of the states to agree on how to fund the national government, Timothy Messer-Kruse suggests that scholars have discounted...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807182761
• ISBN13: 9780807182765
• Release Date: October 2024
• Publisher: LSU Press
• Length: 240 Pages