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Routledge Slavery and the Founders: Race and Liberty in the Age of Jefferson

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In Slavery and the Founders, Paul Finkelman provides a critical examination of how America's founding generation addressed human bondage and its profound impact on the nation's development. This essential work explores the contradiction between the Declaration of Independence's ideals and the reality of slavery in the early American republic, revealing how slavery shaped the U.S. Constitution and early American politics. Finkelman offers detailed analysis of Thomas Jefferson's relationship to slavery, illuminating the moral and political complexities that defined the founding era. The book serves as an important historical resource for understanding how the institution of slavery influenced the nation's foundational documents and the leaders who drafted them, making it invaluable for students, scholars, and readers seeking to comprehend the full historical context of American independence and constitutional development.

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Finkelman's Slavery and the Founders examines the founding generation's response to slavery as a central issue in early American history.

The book explores how slavery directly influenced the drafting and content of the U.S. Constitution and shaped early American political development.

This work provides critical analysis of Thomas Jefferson's personal relationship to slavery within the broader context of American founding ideals.

Published by Routledge, the book offers scholarly analysis of the contradiction between the Declaration of Independence and the reality of slavery in the early republic.

The text serves as an essential resource for understanding the profound ways that slavery affected America's founding documents and political institutions.

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Brand: Routledge
Format: hardcover
ASIN: 0765641453
Category: Books > Subjects > Business, Finance & Law > Law
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 09 April 2014
Listed Since: 19 November 2013

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