Slavery's Constitution: From Revolution to Ratification by David Waldstreicher

Slavery's Constitution: From Revolution to Ratification

David Waldstreicher

208 pages first pub 2009 (editions)

nonfiction history politics challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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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 we...

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