By tracing slavery from before American revolution, through the Constitution’s framing, and into the public debate that followed, this title shows not only that slavery was actively discussed behind the…

Now an established classic, Intellectual Origins of American Radicalism was the first book to explore this alternative current of American political thought from the seventeenth-century English Revolution to the time…

Considers the cultural, political, and religious contexts shaping the long struggle against racial injustice in one of early America’s most important cities. Comprised of nine scholarly essays, the volume recounts…