Slavery and the Founders: Race and Liberty in the Age of Jefferson by Paul Finkelman
Slavery and the Founders: Race and Liberty in the Age of Jefferson
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Paul Finkelman
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Slavery and the Founders: Race and Liberty in the Age of Jefferson

Paul Finkelman

272 pages • first pub 1995 (view editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative reflective medium-paced
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This text studies the attitudes of the founding "fathers" toward slavery. Specifically, it examines the views of Thomas Jefferson reflected in his life and writings and those of other founders as expressed in the Northwest Ordinance, the Constitut...

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