Dark bargain : slavery, profits, and the struggle for the Constitution
Type
Book
Authors
ISBN 10
0802715079
ISBN 13
9780802715074
DDC
342.7320
Category
American Law
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Publication Year
2005
Publisher
Walker & Company, United States
Pages
vii, 230 pages
Subject
Slavery and Civil Rights
Abstract
"A chronicle of the daily debates and backroom conferences in inns and taverns through July and August of the 1787, to reveal how tenuous the Constitution was, and how an agreement between unlikely collaborators got the delegates to agree." - Voila
Description
Content:
pt. 1. Reluctant nation. Devil in the mist -- Reluctant nation: the Articles of Confederation -- Rabble in black and white: insurrection -- Taming the West: the Ohio Company of Virginia -- pt. 2. Four architects. Sorcerer's apprentice: Virginia and the Upper South -- Gold in the swamps: South Carolina, rice, and the Lower South -- The value of a dollar: Connecticut -- pt. 3. Supreme law of the land. Philadelphia: the convention begins -- June: the colloquium -- Slavery by the numbers: the mathematics of legislative control -- Sixty percent of a human being -- Balancing act: two great compromises -- Not a king, but what? -- Details -- Dark bargain: the slave trade and other commerce -- Closing the deal: September -- Supreme law of the land.
pt. 1. Reluctant nation. Devil in the mist -- Reluctant nation: the Articles of Confederation -- Rabble in black and white: insurrection -- Taming the West: the Ohio Company of Virginia -- pt. 2. Four architects. Sorcerer's apprentice: Virginia and the Upper South -- Gold in the swamps: South Carolina, rice, and the Lower South -- The value of a dollar: Connecticut -- pt. 3. Supreme law of the land. Philadelphia: the convention begins -- June: the colloquium -- Slavery by the numbers: the mathematics of legislative control -- Sixty percent of a human being -- Balancing act: two great compromises -- Not a king, but what? -- Details -- Dark bargain: the slave trade and other commerce -- Closing the deal: September -- Supreme law of the land.
Biblio Notes
Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-218) and index.
Number of Copies
1
