Title: Class conflict, slavery, and the United States Constitution /
Authors: Lynd, Staughton.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press,
Year: 2009
Subjects: United States.; Slavery United States; United States Politics and government; United States Politics and government
Contents: Who should rule at home? Dutchess County, New York, in the American Revolution -- Tenant rising at Livingston Manor, May 1777 -- The mechanics in New York politics, 1774-1785 -- A governing class on the defensive: the case of New York -- On Turner, Beard, and slavery -- The abolitionist critique of the United States Constitution -- The compromise of 1787 -- Abraham Yates's history of the movement for the United States Constitution -- Beard, Jefferson, and the tree of Liberty.