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001			on1051003641
003			OCoLC
005			20240726105109.0
008			180907s2018 mau ob 001 0 eng d
040			_aNT _beng _erda _epn _cNT
020			_a9780674916036 _q((electronic)l(electronic)ctronic)
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050	0	4	_aKF4545 _b.N677 2018
049			_aMAIN
100	1		_aWilentz, Sean, _e1
245	1	0	_aNo property in man : _bslavery and antislavery at the nation's founding / _cSean Wilentz.
260			_aCambridge, Massachusetts : _bHarvard University Press, _c(c)2018.
300			_a1 online resource (xviii, 350 pages)
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
347			_adata file _2rda
490	1		_aThe Nathan I. Huggins lectures
500			_aSeries taken from publisher's website.
520	0		_aAmericans revere the Constitution even as they argue fiercely over its original toleration of racial slavery. Some historians have charged that slaveholders actually enshrined human bondage at the nation's founding. Sean Wilentz shares the dismay but sees the Constitution and slavery differently. Although the proslavery side won important concessions, he asserts, antislavery impulses also influenced the framers' work. Far from covering up a crime against humanity, the Constitution restricted slavery's legitimacy under the new national government. In time, that limitation would open the way for the creation of an antislavery politics that led to Southern secession, the Civil War, and Emancipation. Wilentz's controversial reconsideration upends orthodox views of the Constitution. He describes the document as a tortured paradox that abided slavery without legitimizing it. This paradox lay behind the great political battles that fractured the nation over the next seventy years. As Southern Fire-eaters invented a proslavery version of the Constitution, antislavery advocates, including Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass, proclaimed an antislavery version based on the framers' refusal to validate property in man. No Property in Man invites fresh debate about the political and legal struggles over slavery that began during the Revolution and concluded with the Confederacy's defeat. It drives straight to the heart of the most contentious and enduring issue in all of American history.-- _cProvided by publisher.
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505	0	0	_aSlavery, property, and emancipation in Revolutionary America -- _tThe federal convention and the curse of heaven -- _tSlavery, antislavery, and the struggle for ratification -- _tTo the Missouri Crisis -- _tAntislavery, the Constitution, and the coming of the Civil War.
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650		0	_aSlavery _xLaw and legislation _zUnited States.
650		0	_aAntislavery movements _zUnited States.
650		0	_aConstitutional history _zUnited States.
655		1	_aElectronic Books.
856	4	0	_uhttps://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=1882253&site=eds-live&custid=s3260518 _zClick to access digital title | log in using your CIU ID number and my.ciu.edu password
942			_cOB _D _eEB _hKF. _m2018 _QOL _R _x _8NFIC _2LOC
994			_a92 _bNT
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902			_a1 _bCynthia Snell _c1 _dCynthia Snell