Race and the Constitution
Subtitle: from the Philadelphia Convention to the age of segregation
By: by Paul Finkelman
Series: New essays on American constitutional history
Publisher: American Historical Association
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Washington, DC
Language: eng
Number of pages: 78
ISBN-13: 9780872291690
Subjects: Constitutional history; Law and legislation; African Americans; Slavery; Legal status, laws; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 65-78).
Table of contents: title: Race and slavery under the Constitution; title: Implementing the Constitution : slavery, Congress, and the courts; title: Emancipation and freedom : the Civil War and the second founding; title: Reconstructing the union and remaking the Constitution; title: From reconstruction to Jim Crow : the betrayal of the Constitution.