Slavery's Constitution: From Revolution to Ratification
by Waldstreicher, David
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/fine
- ISBN 10
- 0809094533
- ISBN 13
- 9780809094530
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About This Item
New York: Hill and Wang, 2009. Hardcover. Very Good/fine. [10], 195 p.; 22 cm. Yellow cover with black spine title. Illustrated dust jacket. "By tracing slavery from before the revolution, through the Constitution's framing, and into the public debate that followed, Waldstreicher rigorously shows that slavery was not only actively discussed behind the closed and locked doors of the Constitutional Convention, but that it was also deftly woven into the Constitution itself." -- dust jacket. Gift inscription on the title page from the author to Ken Kusmer, another Temple University history professor, who left marginal comments and underlining throughout. Book is in Very Good Condition: marginal comments and underlining by former owner Temple University history professor Ken Kusmer; otherwise, clean and tight. Dust jacket is in Fine Condition: clean and bright.
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- Bookseller
- Classic Books and Ephemera (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 007930
- Title
- Slavery's Constitution: From Revolution to Ratification
- Author
- Waldstreicher, David
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0809094533
- ISBN 13
- 9780809094530
- Publisher
- Hill and Wang
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2009
- Bookseller catalogs
- Law; American History; History & Politics;
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