{"product_id":"slavery-equality-and-the-american-revolution-9780844751061","title":"Slavery, Equality, and the American Revolution","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe year 2026 marks the 250th anniversary\u003cbr\u003eof American independence, yet the nation's founding is controversial now in\u003cbr\u003eways it has not been in decades.\u003c\/b\u003e The American Enterprise Institute offers a\u003cbr\u003emajor intellectual and educational project to reintroduce Americans to the\u003cbr\u003eunique value of their national inheritance.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn the fifth volume of this series, legal\u003cbr\u003escholars and political scientists discuss how the American Revolution both perpetuated\u003cbr\u003eslavery and created the conditions for its abolition. While hundreds of\u003cbr\u003ethousands of African Americans remained enslaved at the end of the\u003cbr\u003eRevolutionary War, the Declaration of Independence's assertion of human\u003cbr\u003eequality galvanized slavery's opponents and laid the groundwork for\u003cbr\u003eincreasingly egalitarian definitions of American citizenship.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eConsidering how the Declaration shaped\u003cbr\u003eantislavery thinkers and politicians such as Frederick Douglass and Abraham\u003cbr\u003eLincoln and informed the 14th Amendment demonstrates how the American\u003cbr\u003eRevolution enabled a \"new birth of freedom\" in the 19th century.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eLevin, Yuval:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cb\u003eYuval Levin\u003c\/b\u003e is the director of Social, Cultural, and Constitutional Studies at the American Enterprise Institute, where he also holds the Beth and Ravenel Curry Chair in Public Policy. The founder and editor of \u003ci\u003eNational Affairs\u003c\/i\u003e, he is also a senior editor at \u003ci\u003eThe New Atlantis\u003c\/i\u003e, a contributing editor at \u003ci\u003eNational Review\u003c\/i\u003e, and a contributing opinion writer at \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eWhite, Adam J.:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cb\u003eAdam J. White\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eis the Laurence H. Silberman Chair in Constitutional Governance and a senior\u003cbr\u003efellow at the American Enterprise Institute, where he focuses on the Supreme\u003cbr\u003eCourt and the administrative state. Concurrently, he codirects the Antonin\u003cbr\u003eScalia Law School's C. Boyden Gray Center for the Study of the Administrative\u003cbr\u003eState.\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eYoo, John:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cb\u003eJohn Yoo\u003c\/b\u003e is a nonresident\u003cbr\u003esenior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute; the Emanuel S. Heller\u003cbr\u003eProfessor of Law at the University of California, Berkeley; and a senior\u003cbr\u003eresearch fellow at the Civitas Institute at the University of Texas at Austin.\u003cbr\u003eEt al...\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"AEI Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51860253245714,"sku":"9780844751061","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_d109e7d5-03ff-46d5-b3d4-84363ff3596b.jpg?v=1767781553","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/slavery-equality-and-the-american-revolution-9780844751061","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}