Slavery and the Founders - Dilemmas of Jefferson and His Contemporaries

List of contents

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

About the author

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.

Summary

A study of the attitudes of the founding "fathers" toward slavery. The text examines the views of Thomas Jefferson reflected in his life and writings and those of other founders as expressed in sources such as the Constitution, the Constituional Convention and the Northwest Ordinance.

Product details

• Authors: Paul Finkelman
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.11.1995
• EAN: 9781563245909
• ISBN: 978-1-56324-590-9
• No. of pages: 226
• Weight: 580 g
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Cultural history; USA, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Slavery, POLITICAL SCIENCE / American Government / Executive Branch, POLITICAL SCIENCE / American Government / Legislative Branch, United States of America, USA, Slavery & abolition of slavery, Constitution: government & the state, Slavery and abolition of slavery, Constitution: government and the state