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Reflections on slavery and the Constitution
Title
Reflections on slavery and the Constitution / George Anastaplo.
ISBN
9780739171769 (cloth : alk. paper)
0739171763 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780739171776 (electronic)
0739171771 (electronic)
Published
Lanham, Md. : Lexington Books, c2012.
Physical Description
xv, 318 pages ; 24 cm.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
June 05, 2012
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Slavery in ancient Greece
Slavery and the bible
Hugo Grotius
Somerset v. Stewart and its consequences (1771-1772)
John Wesley and the sins of slavery
The declaration of independence and the issue of slavery
Human nature and the constitution
The compromises with respect to equality in the constitution
The states in the constitution
The federalist on slavery and the constitution (1787-1788)
Hannah more and other poets on slavery (1798-1847)
Suppression of the international slave trade
John Quincy Adams and John C. Calhoun
On the abolitionist petition to congress
The fugitive slave laws (1793, 1850)
Frederick Douglas and Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852)
Chief Justice Taney and the Dred Scott Case (1857)
The Dred Scott Case Dissenters (1857)
Abraham Lincoln in Cincinnati (1859, 1861)
Stephen A. Douglas in Montgomery (November 1860)
The ordinances of secession (1860-1861)
The declarations of causes issued by seceding states (1860-1861)
The confederate constitution (1861)
Abraham Lincoln, the Civil War generals, and Slavery (1860-1865)
Ralph Waldo Emerson and the emancipation proclamation (1863)
The Civil War amendments (1865, 1868, 1870)
The lost cause transformed.
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