Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-294) and index.
Contents:
Making a covenant with death : slavery and the Constitutional Convention -- Slavery and the Northwest Ordinance, 1787 : a study in ambiguity -- Evading the Ordinance : the persistence of bondage in Indiana and Illinois -- Implementing the proslavery constitution : the adoption of the Fugitive Slave Law of 1793 -- Ending the African slave trade in the new nation -- The problem of slavery in the age of federalism -- "Treason against the hopes of the world" : Thomas Jefferson and slavery -- Thomas Jefferson, Sally Hemings, and antislavery : historians and myths.
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