The Great Contradiction (inbunden, eng)
The Great Contradiction (inbunden, eng)
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A major new history from the author of the Pulitzer Prizewinning Founding Brothers and the National Book Award winner American Sphinx, on how Americas foundersWashington, Jefferson, Franklin, Adamsregarded the issue of slavery as they drafted the Declaration of Independence and Constitution.
In this daring and important work, our most trusted voice on the founding era reckons with the realities and regrets of our founding and the tragedy of its two great failures: the failure to end slavery and the failure to avoid Indian removal
How does it appear in the sight-of-heaven, wrote Samuel Hopkins of Newport, that these States, who have been fighting for liberty, cannot agree in any political constitution unless it indulge and authorize them to enslave their fellow men.
On the eve of the American Revolution, half a million enslaved African Americans, many in place for several generations, were permanently embedded in the North American populationThe slave trade was flourishing, even as the thirteen colonies armed themselves to defend against the idea of being governed without consent. This paradox gave birth to what one of our most trusted and admired historians, Joseph J. Ellis, calls the American Dilemma. How could a government that had been fought for and founded on the principles articulated in the Declaration of Independence institutionalize slavery? How could it permit a tidal wave of western migration by settlers who understood the phrase pursuit of happiness to mean claiming Indian land?
In The Great Contradiction, Ellis, with narrative grace and a flair for irony and paradox, addresses the questions that lie at Americas twisted rootsquestions that turned even the sharpest minds of the revolutionary generation into mental contortionistsHe discusses the first debates around slavery and the treatment of Native Americans, from the Constitutional Convention to the Treaty of New York, revealing the thinking and rationalizations behind Jay, Hamilton, and Madisons revisions of the Articles of Confederation, and highlights the key role of figures like Quaker abolitionist Anthony Benezet and Creek chief Alexander McGillivray.
Ellis writes with candor and deftness, his clarion voice rising above presentist historians and partisans, who are eager to make the founders into trophies in the ongoing culture warsInstead, Ellis tells a story that is rooted in the coexistence of grandeur and failure, brilliance and blindness, grace and sin.
In this daring and important work, our most trusted voice on the founding era reckons with the realities and regrets of our founding and the tragedy of its two great failures: the failure to end slavery and the failure to avoid Indian removal
How does it appear in the sight-of-heaven, wrote Samuel Hopkins of Newport, that these States, who have been fighting for liberty, cannot agree in any political constitution unless it indulge and authorize them to enslave their fellow men.
On the eve of the American Revolution, half a million enslaved African Americans, many in place for several generations, were permanently embedded in the North American populationThe slave trade was flourishing, even as the thirteen colonies armed themselves to defend against the idea of being governed without consent. This paradox gave birth to what one of our most trusted and admired historians, Joseph J. Ellis, calls the American Dilemma. How could a government that had been fought for and founded on the principles articulated in the Declaration of Independence institutionalize slavery? How could it permit a tidal wave of western migration by settlers who understood the phrase pursuit of happiness to mean claiming Indian land?
In The Great Contradiction, Ellis, with narrative grace and a flair for irony and paradox, addresses the questions that lie at Americas twisted rootsquestions that turned even the sharpest minds of the revolutionary generation into mental contortionistsHe discusses the first debates around slavery and the treatment of Native Americans, from the Constitutional Convention to the Treaty of New York, revealing the thinking and rationalizations behind Jay, Hamilton, and Madisons revisions of the Articles of Confederation, and highlights the key role of figures like Quaker abolitionist Anthony Benezet and Creek chief Alexander McGillivray.
Ellis writes with candor and deftness, his clarion voice rising above presentist historians and partisans, who are eager to make the founders into trophies in the ongoing culture warsInstead, Ellis tells a story that is rooted in the coexistence of grandeur and failure, brilliance and blindness, grace and sin.
| Format | Inbunden |
| Omfång | 240 sidor |
| Språk | Engelska |
| Förlag | Random House USA Inc |
| Utgivningsdatum | 2025-10-28 |
| ISBN | 9780593801413 |
Artikelnummer
3800551
EAN
9780593801413
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