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Class Conflict, Slavery, and the United States Constitution (Paperback, 2nd Revised edition)
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Class Conflict, Slavery, and the United States Constitution (Paperback, 2nd Revised edition)
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List price R641
Loot Price R538
Discovery Miles 5 380
You Save R103 (16%)
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First published in 1967, Class Conflict, Slavery, and the United
States Constitution was among the first studies to identify the
importance of slavery to the founding of the American Republic.
Provocative and powerful, this book offers explanations for the
movements and motivations that underpinned the Revolution and the
Early Republic. First, Staughton Lynd analyzes what motivated farm
tenants and artisans during the period of the American Revolution.
Second, he argues that slavery, and a willingness to compromise
with slavery, were at the center of all political arrangements by
the patriot leadership, including the United States Constitution.
Third, he maintains that the historiography of the United States
has adopted the mistaken perspective of Thomas Jefferson, who held
that southern plantation owners were merely victimized agrarians.
This new edition reproduces the original Preface by Edward P.
Thompson and includes a new Afterword by Robin Einhorn that
examines Lynd's arguments in the context of forty years of
subsequent scholarship.
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