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Slavery and the Founders
Paul Finkelman
其他書名
Dilemmas of Jefferson and His Contemporaries
出版Taylor & Francis, 2024-11-01
主題History / GeneralSocial Science / SlaveryPolitical Science / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism
ISBN10402889529781040288955
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=iC0mEQAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋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 Constitutional Convention and the Constitution itself, and the fugitive slave legislation of the 1790s. The author contends: slavery fatally permeated the founding of the American republic; the original constitution was, as the abilitionists later maintained, "a covnenant with death"; and Jefferson's anti-slavery reputation is undeserved and most historians and biographers have prettified Jefferson's record on slavery.