Slavery, Race and the American Revolution (Volume 0)

Slavery, Race and the American Revolution (Volume 0) by MacLeod, Duncan J.. Paperback edition. ISBN: 9780521098779.

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.