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Class conflict, slavery, and the United States Constitution : ten essays
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- Creator
- Staughton Lynd
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- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1980
- ©1967
- Physical Details
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- xiii, 288 pages ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780313226724, 0313226725
- OCLC
- ocm06486979
- Reprint of the 1968 ed. published by Bobbs-Merrill, Indianapolis.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Introduction: beyond Beard -- Who should rule at home? Dutchess County, New York, in the American Revolution -- The tenant rising at Livingston Manor, May 1777 -- The mechanics in New York politics, 1774-1785 -- A governing class on the defensive : the case of New York -- On Turner, Beard, and slavery -- The abolitionist critique of the United States Constitution -- The compromise of 1787 -- Abraham Yate's history of the movement for the United States Constitution -- Beard, Jefferson, and the tree of liberty