Born Equal: Remaking America’s Constitution, 1840–1920 sunset the University of Wisconsin-Madison

the University of Wisconsin-Madison

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Born Equal: Remaking America’s Constitution, 1840–1920 sunset the University of Wisconsin-Madisonby Akhil Reed Amar From one of our most prodigious constitutional scholars (Jonathan Eig), the definitive history of how the ideal of birth equality reshaped the American Constitution, from antebellum debates over slavery and secession, to the Civil War and emancipation, to womens suffrage In 1840, millions of Black Americans groaned in the chains of slavery. By 1920, millions of American men and women of every race had won the vote. In Born Equal,