American Inheritance: Liberty and Slavery in the Birth of a Nation, 1765-1795

by Edward J. Larson

Book Overview

New attention from historians and journalists is raising pointed questions about the founding period: was the American revolution waged to preserve slavery, and was the Constitution a pact with slavery or a landmark in the antislavery movement? Leaders of the founding who called for American liberty are scrutinized for enslaving Black people themselves: George Washington consistently refused to recognize the freedom of those who escaped his Mount...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393882209
• ISBN13: 9780393882209
• Release Date: January 2023
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.3" x 9.3"