Slavery Race and the American Revolution

This Book Analyses The Impact Of American Revolutionary Ideology Upon Conceptions Of The Place Of Slavery In American Society. The Ambivalence Involved In A Libertarian Revolution Occurring In A Slave Society Was As Obvious To Eighteenth-Century Americans As It Is To Twentieth-Century Historians Yet The Obvious Sincerity Of Southern Republicanism And The Persistence Of Slavery Have Presented A Paradox With Which Historians Have Hardly Come To Terms.