Reflections on slavery and the constitution
By: George Anastaplo
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Lanham
Language: eng
Number of pages: 334
ISBN-13: 9780739171769; 9780739171776
Subjects: United States; Law and legislation; Slavery; History
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Slavery in ancient Greece; title: Slavery and the bible; title: Hugo Grotius; title: Somerset v. Stewart and its consequences (1771-1772); title: John Wesley and the sins of slavery; title: The declaration of independence and the issue of slavery; title: Human nature and the constitution; title: The compromises with respect to equality in the constitution; title: The states in the constitution; title: The federalist on slavery and the constitution (1787-1788); title: Hannah more and other poets on slavery (1798-1847); title: Suppression of the international slave trade; title: John Quincy Adams and John C. Calhoun; title: On the abolitionist petition to congress; title: The fugitive slave laws (1793, 1850); title: Frederick Douglas and Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852); title: Chief Justice Taney and the Dred Scott Case (1857); title: The Dred Scott Case Dissenters (1857); title: Abraham Lincoln in Cincinnati (1859, 1861); title: Stephen A. Douglas in Montgomery (November 1860); title: The ordinances of secession (1860-1861); title: The declarations of causes issued by seceding states (1860-1861); title: The confederate constitution (1861); title: Abraham Lincoln, the Civil War generals, and Slavery (1860-1865); title: Ralph Waldo Emerson and the emancipation proclamation (1863); title: The Civil War amendments (1865, 1868, 1870); title: The lost cause transformed.