No Property in Man: Slavery and Antislavery at the Nation's Founding - The Nathan I. Huggins Lectures

Driving straight to the heart of the most contentious issue in American history, Sean Wilentz argues controversially that, far from concealing a crime against humanity, the U. S. Constitution limited slavery's legitimacy-a limitation which in time inspired the antislavery politics that led to Southern secession, the Civil War, and Emancipation.