American Inheritance: Liberty and Slavery in the Birth of...
Larson, Edward J. / De Vries, David
From a Pulitzer Prize winner, a powerful history that reveals how the twin strands of liberty and slavery were joined in the nation's founding. "Gut-wrenching. . . . While acknowledging that the study of liberty and slavery in the Revolutionary era remains a 'partisan minefield, ' Mr. Larson plunges in, sparing none of the era's most prominent revolutionaries from scrutiny." --Harold Holzer, Wall Street Journal New attention from historians an...