The Sources of Anti-Slavery Constitutionalism in America, 1760-1848
This ambitious book examines the constitutional and legal doctrines of the antislavery movement from the eve of the American Revolution to the Wilmot Proviso and the 1848 national elections. Relating political activity to constitutional thought, William M. Wiecek surveys the antislavery societies, t...
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Cornell University Press
2018
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