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American Inheritance: Liberty and Slavery in the Birth of a Nation, 1765-1795

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A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice

A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of 2023


From a Pulitzer Prize winner, a powerful history that reveals how the twin strands of liberty and slavery were joined in the nation’s founding.

New attention from historians and journalists is raising pointed questions about the founding period: was the American revolution waged to preserve slavery, and was the Constitution a pact with slavery or a landmark in the antislavery movement? Leaders of the fo...