Slavery, equality, and the American Revolution / edited by Yuval Levin, Adam J. White, and John Yoo.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Barnett, Randy E., author.

Lash, Kurt T., author.

Morel, Lucas E., author.

Driver, Justin, author.

Schaub, Diana J., 1959- author.

Contributor:

Levin, Yuval, editor.

White, Adam J., editor.

Yoo, John, editor.

Series:

We hold these truths : America at 250 ; v. 5.

America at 250 ; 5

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United States. Declaration of Independence.

United States.

Slavery--United States--History.

Slavery.

United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783.

Equality.

Physical Description:

v, 130 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Washington, D.C. : AEI Press, [2025]

Summary:

"The year 2026 marks the 250th anniversary of American independence, yet the founding is controversial now in ways it has not been in decades. The American Enterprise Institute offers a major intellectual and educational project to reintroduce Americans to the unique value of their national inheritance. In the fifth volume of this series, legal scholars and political scientists discuss how the American Revolution both perpetuated slavery and created the conditions for its abolition. While hundreds of thousands of African Americans remained enslaved at the end of the Revolutionary War, the Declaration of Independence's assertion of human equality galvanized slavery's opponents and laid the groundwork for increasingly egalitarian definitions of American citizenship. Considering how the Declaration shaped antislavery thinkers and politicians such as Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln and informed the 14th Amendment demonstrates how the American Revolution enabled a 'new birth of freedom' in the 19th century." -- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction / Yuval Levin

1. But what about slavery? / Randy E. Barnett

2. Freedom and federalism / Kurt T. Lash

3. Lincoln's battle for the Founder's Declaration / Lucas E. Morel

4. The founding of Frederick Douglass / Justin Driver

5. Frederick Douglass's civic education / Diana Schaub.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

0844751065

9780844751061

OCLC:

1536326874