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A Glorious Liberty: Frederick Douglass and the Fight for an Antislavery Constitution by Damon Root
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A Glorious Liberty: Frederick Douglass and the Fight for an Antislavery Constitution by Damon Root

By Timothy Sandefur

Feb 09, 2021
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Lincoln, NE: Potomac Books, 2020

186 pp., $26.95 (hardcover)

Nothing in history has so bitterly divided Americans as the practice of slavery. Even today, a century and a half after the “peculiar institution” was abolished, debates continue over whether the authors of the Constitution intended to grant it permanent legal protection or place it—in the phras…

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