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After its early introduction into the English colonies in North America, slavery in the United States lasted as a legal institution until the passage of the Thi

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

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest m

Frederick Douglass and George Fitzhugh disagreed on virtually every major issue of the day. On slavery, women's rights, and the preservation of the Union their