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8220Wilentz brings a lifetime of learning and a mastery of political history to this brilliant book.82218213David W. Blight, author of Frederick DouglassA New York Times Book Review Editors8217 ChoiceA Foreign Affairs Best Book of the YearAmericans revere the Constitution even as they argue fiercely over its original toleration of slavery. In this essential reconsideration of the creation and legacy of our nation8217s founding document, Sean Wilentz reveals the tortured compromises that led the Founders to abide slavery without legitimizing it, a deliberate ambiguity that fractured the nation seventy years later. Contesting the Southern proslavery version of the Constitution, Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass pointed to the framers8217 refusal to validate what they called 8220property in ma

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