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Slavery's constitution : from revolution to ratification / David Waldstreicher.
Van Pelt Library KF4545.S5 W347 2009
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Waldstreicher, David.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Slavery--Law and legislation--United States--History.
- Slavery.
- Slavery--Law and legislation.
- History.
- United States.
- Slavery--Law and legislation--England--History.
- Slavery--United States--Legal status of enslaved persons in free states.
- Slavery--Legal status of enslaved persons in free states.
- Constitutional history--United States.
- Constitutional history.
- England.
- Physical Description:
- 195 pages ; 22 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Hill and Wang, 2009.
- Contents:
- Prologue: Meaningful silences
- The Mansfieldian moment
- The great compromises of the Constitutional Convention
- Protesting and ratifying slavery's constitution
- Epilogue: Whose Constitution? Toward civil war.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780809094530
- 0809094533
- OCLC:
- 263984555
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