Slavery, Race and the American Revolution

Download or read book Slavery, Race and the American Revolution written by Duncan J. MacLeod and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1975-03-01 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.