Self-Evident Truths: Contesting Equal Rights from the Revolution to the Civil War

From a distinguished historian, a detailed and compelling examination of how the early Republic struggled with the idea that “all men are created equal”

How did Americans in the generations following the Declaration of Independence translate its lofty ideals into practice? In this broadly synthetic work, distinguished historian Richard Brown shows that despite its founding statement that “all men are created equal,” the early Republic struggled with every form of social inequality. While pe...