Slavery, Equality, and the American Revolution (America at 250, Band 5) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0844751065 ISBN 13: 9780844751061

Verlag: AEI Press, 2025

Inhaltsangabe

The year 2026 marks the 250th anniversary of American independence, yet the nation's 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.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Randy E. Barnett
is the Patrick Hotung Professor of Constitutional Law at the Georgetown
University Law Center and faculty director of the Georgetown Center for the
Constitution. He is the coauthor of The Original Meaning of the Fourteenth
Amendment: Its Letter and Spirit
(2021).

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: AEI Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2025
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0844751065
• ISBN 13: 9780844751061
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 140
• Herausgeber: Levin Yuval, White Adam J., Yoo John
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