A review by raewood
Dark Bargain: Slavery, Profits, and the Struggle for the Constitution by Lawrence Goldstone

3.0

Well that could've been a 30 page journal article. In fact, I think some brevity would've helped Goldstone's argument, because his connections are far too diffuse and obscured by clunky sentences and unnecessary dives into biographical information. This book has actually almost nothing to say about slavery and instead is a painfully slow and complicated rehashing of the constitutional convention, which it's clear the author really loves. Just very meh.