Self-evident truths : contesting equal rights from the Revolution to the Civil War

"How did Americans in the generations following the Declaration of Independence translate its lofty ideals into practice? In this broadly synthetic work, distinguished historian Richard Brown shows that despite its founding statement that "all men are created equal, " the early Republ...

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Main Author: Brown, Richard D.
Format: BOOK
Language:ENGLISH
Published: Yale University Press 2017
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