Slavery and the Founders: Dilemmas of Jefferson and His Contemporaries by Paul Finkelman

Slavery and the Founders: Dilemmas of Jefferson and His Contemporaries

Paul Finkelman

226 pages • missing pub info (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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