Descript |
x, 197 p. ; 22 cm. |
Contents |
Prologue: Slavery and the laws and rights of nature -- Introduction: The apple of gold -- Somerset and the antislavery constitutional tradition -- Constitutional disharmony in The Antelope and La Amistad -- Constitutional construction in Prigg and Dredd Scott -- Natural law, providence, and Lincoln's constitutional statesmanship -- Public reason and the wrong of slavery -- Conclusion: The heritage of the antislavery constitutional tradition. |
ISBN |
9781107013636 (hardback) |
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1107013631 (hardback) |
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