Race and Revolution (Merrill Jensen Lectures in Constitutional Studies)

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The most profound crisis of sense of right and wrong for white Americans at the end of the eighteenth century became their most tragic failure. Race and Revolution is a trenchant study of the revolutionary generation’s early efforts to right the apparent contradiction of slavery and of their ultimate compromises that not only left the institution intact but provided it with the protection of a vastly strengthened government after 1788. Reversing the conventional view that blames slavery on the South’s social and economic structures, Nash stresses the role of the northern states in the failure to abolish slavery. It used to be northern racism and hypocrisy as much as southern intransigence that buttressed ‘the strange institution.’ Nash also shows how economic and cultural factors intertwined to result not in an it sounds as if judicious decision of the new American nation but moderately its most significant lost opportunity. Race and Revolution describes the free black community’s response to this failure of the revolution’s promise, its full of life and articulate pleas for justice, and the community’s successes in building its own African-American institutions within the hostile environment of early nineteenth-century The united states. Included with the text of Race and Revolution are nineteen rare and a very powerful documents–letters, pamphlets, sermons, and speeches–which provide evidence for Nash’s controversial and persuasive claims. From the words of Anthony Benezet and Luther Martin to those of Absalom Jones and Caesar Sarter, readers may pass judgement on the historical record for themselves. ‘In fact,’ argues Nash, ‘the American Revolution represents the largest slave uprising in our history.’ Race and Revolution is the compelling story of that failed quest for the promise of freedom.

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