Born Equal: Remaking America’s Constitution, 1840–1920
Born Equal: Remaking America’s Constitution, 1840–1920
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- Author: Akhil Reed Amar
- Publisher: Basic Books
- Pages: 736
- Condition: New
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Born Equal — Akhil Reed Amar
From antebellum debates to women’s suffrage, a definitive history of how birth equality reshaped the American Constitution.
In 1840, millions of Black Americans were enslaved. By 1920, millions of men and women of every race had won the vote. Born Equal, by prizewinning constitutional historian Akhil Reed Amar, recounts the dramatic constitutional debates of these eight decades. Four landmark amendments abolished slavery, secured Black and female citizenship, and extended suffrage regardless of race or gender, anchored in the evolving principle that all Americans are created equal.
Amar traces the contributions of remarkable figures—Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Frederick Douglass, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Abraham Lincoln—whose debates spanned from Seneca Falls to Congress, Bleeding Kansas to Gettysburg, and Ford’s Theater to the White House gates. Their vision and advocacy transformed the nation and laid the foundation for equality under the law.
An ambitious narrative and incisive work of legal and political analysis, Born Equal offers a vital portrait of America’s winding journey toward realizing the promise of birth equality.
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