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9780765604392

Slavery and the Founders

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  • ISBN13:

    9780765604392

  • ISBN10:

    0765604396

  • Edition: 2nd
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2001-05-01
  • Publisher: M E Sharpe Inc
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Summary

In this significant revision of his acclaimed work, Paul Finkelman places the problem of slavery in the context of early American politics and the making of the Constitution. He argues that slavery was a bone of contention from the first days of the Constitutional Convention to the last, and demonstrates persuasively that the debate on slavery in national politics and the problem of fugitive slaves predated the antebellum period. A new chapter argues that it was the Federalists who took the high road on the issue of slavery by supporting emancipation, while supporters of Jefferson formed the first pro-slavery political party.

Author Biography

Paul Finkelman is the Chapman Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of Tulsa College of Law.

Table of Contents

Preface ix
Making a Covenant with Death: Slavery and the Constitutional Convention
3(34)
Slavery and the Northwest Ordinance, 1787: A Study in Ambiguity
37(21)
Evading the Ordinance: The Persistence of Bondage in Indiana and Illinois
58(23)
Implementing the Proslavery Constitution: The Adoption of the Fugitive Slave Law of 1793
81(24)
The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Federalism
105(24)
``Treason Against the Hopes of the World'': Thomas Jefferson and Slavery
129(34)
Thomas Jefferson, Sally Hemings, and Antislavery: Historians and Myths
163(34)
Notes 197(56)
Bibliography 253(14)
Index 267(30)
About the Author 297

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