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Inventing Equality - Reconstructing the Constitution in the Aftermath of the Civil War (Hardcover)
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Inventing Equality - Reconstructing the Constitution in the Aftermath of the Civil War (Hardcover)
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On July 4, 1852, Frederick Douglass stood in front of a crowd in
Rochester, New York, and asked, "What to the slave is the Fourth of
July?" The audience had invited him to speak on the day celebrating
freedom, and had expected him to offer a hopeful message about
America; instead, he'd offered back to them their own hypocrisy.
How could the Constitution defend both freedom and slavery? How
could it celebrate liberty with one hand while withdrawing it with
another? Theirs was a country which promoted and even celebrated
inequality. From the very beginning, American history can be seen
as a battle to reconcile the large gap between America's stated
ideals and the reality of its republic. Its struggle is not one of
steady progress toward greater freedom and equality, but rather for
every step forward there is a step taken in a different direction.
In Inventing Equality, Michael Bellesiles traces the evolution of
the battle for true equality - the stories of those fighting
forward, to expand the working definition of what it means to be an
American citizen -from the Revolution through the late nineteenth
century. He identifies the systemic flaws in the Constitution, and
explores through the role of the Supreme Court and three
Constitutional amendments - the 13th, 14th, and 15th - the ways in
which equality and inequality waxed and waned over the decades.
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