1st Edition
Slavery and the Founders Dilemmas of Jefferson and His Contemporaries
By Paul Finkelman
Copyright 1996
226 Pages
by
Routledge
226 Pages
by
Routledge
226 Pages
by
Routledge
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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 Constitutional Convention and the Constitution itself, and the fugitive slave legislation of the 1790s. The author contends: slavery fatally permeated the... Read more
Preface 1. Making a Covenant with Death: Slavery and the Constitutional Convention 2. Slavery and the Northwest Ordinance: A Study in Ambiguity 3. Evading the Ordinance: The Persistence of Bondage in Indiana and Illinois 4. Implementing the Proslavery Constitution: The Adoption of the Fugitive Slave Law of 1793 5. Thomas Jefferson and Slavery “Treason Against the Hopes of the World” 6. Thomas Jefferson and Slavery II: Historians and Myth
Biography
Paul Finkelman is currently Visiting Professor at Chicago-Kent College of Law and the incoming Charlton W. Tebeau Distinguished Professor of American History at the University of Miami at Coral Gables.
