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Constitution of the United States. Although the original United States Constitution did not contain the words "slave" or "slavery" within its text, [1] it dealt directly with American slavery in at least five of its provisions and indirectly protected the institution elsewhere in the document.
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Includes index A reissue of the author's Abraham Lincoln : a biography for young people, 1888 Lincoln ancestry -- The boyhood of Lincoln -- Young manhood -- The Lincoln in Illinois -- A plunge into politics -- The young politician -- Winning his way -- The rising politician -- Lincoln the lawyer -- A great awakening -- The Kansas struggle -- The coming man -- Lincoln and Douglas -- After a ...
What, then, is American slavery, as we have seen it exhibited by law, and by the decision of Courts? Let us begin by stating what it is not: 1. It is not apprenticeship. 2. It is not guardianship. 3. It is in no sense a system for the education of a weaker race by a stronger. 4. The happiness of the governed is in no sense its object. 5.
The question of the suppression of the slave-trade is so intimately connected with the questions as to its rise, the system of American slavery, and the whole colonial policy of the eighteenth century, that it is difficult to isolate it, and at the same time to avoid superficiality on the one hand, and unscientific narrowness of view on the other.
Derek Sanderson, writing in Library Journal, declared that "professional historians and lay readers will pore over this book for years to come. Essential for all readers interested in American history and the history of slavery." [20] Reviews in the library and publishing industry press also appeared in Publishers Weekly [21] and Booklist [22]
Slavery in America: From Colonial Times to the Civil War, An Eyewitness History. New York: Facts on File. ISBN 0-8160-3863-5. Smith, Clint (2021). How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery across America. New York: Little, Brown and Company. ISBN 978-0316492935. National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction, 2021 [5]