Inventing Equality: Reconstructing the Constitution in the Aftermath of the Civil War by Michael A. Bellesiles

Inventing Equality: Reconstructing the Constitution in the Aftermath of the Civil War

Michael A. Bellesiles

336 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)

nonfiction politics informative reflective slow-paced
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The evolution of the battle for true equality in America seen through the men, ideas, and politics behind the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments passed at the end of the Civil War.On July 4, 1852, Frederick Douglass stood in front of a crowd in Roche...

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