

No Property in Man
Slavery and Antislavery at the Nation’s Founding
Author: Sean Wilentz
Narrator: L.J. Ganser
Unabridged: 10 hr 23 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Tantor Media
Published: 10/02/2018
Categories: Nonfiction, History, Law, Social Science, Slavery
Synopsis
Wilentz's controversial and timely reconsideration upends orthodox views of the Constitution. He describes the document as a tortured paradox that abided slavery without legitimizing it. This paradox lay behind the great political battles that fractured the nation over the next seventy years. As Southern Fire-eaters invented a proslavery version of the Constitution, antislavery advocates, including Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass, proclaimed antislavery versions based on the framers' refusal to validate what they called "property in man."