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For anyone wanting to better understand our complex political and legal history with the institution of slavery this is a must read
Both books essentially deal with the world of ideas relative to slavery and politics
For example the south was able to obtain language prohibiting congress from interfering with the slave trade until 1808
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I liked the precise analysis of the slavery issue during the founding and the clear cogent writting
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The former deals with the influence of slavery on politics in the american colonies up to 1776 and the latter takes up the same subject from the constitutional convention of 1789 up to the civil war
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Both books essentially deal with the world of ideas relative to slavery and politics
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For horne the american revolution was fundamentally and predominately a reaction by american slaveowners to prevent england from abolishing or restricting their peculiar property particularly after 1772 when justice mansfield had ruled in somersets case that slaves brought to england which had no positive law of slavery were freed upon coming into britain
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Horne would have all colonists be supporters of slavery inasmuch as slavery existed in every american colony in 1776
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In addition abolition societies had been formed to work against slavery
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These northerners came into the constitutional convention with an antislavery agenda or at least the calm assurance that slavery was on its way out and that freedom was the normative condition of humanity
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This attitude was shared by most of the upper south although they did not intend to force the issue in their lifetime
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