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This book argues that conflicts over slavery and abolition in the early American Republic generated a mode of constitutional interpretation that remains powerfu

Pennsylvanian Quaker Anthony Benezet was one of the most important and prolific abolitionists of the eighteenth century. The first to combine religious and phil

The abolitionist movement in 19th century America led directly to the end of slavery in the United States. This collection of more than 20 original documents in

Nothing More than Freedom explores the long and complex legal history of Black freedom in the United States. From the ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment i