A slaveholders union slavery politics and the constitution in the early american republic van cleve george william isbn 9780226846705 kostenloser versand fur alle bucher mit versand und verkauf duch amazon. A slaveholders union slavery politics and the constitution in the early american republic amazonde george william van cleve ba 1 4 cher. A slaveholders union furthers this unsettling claim by demonstrating once and for all that slavery was indeed an essential part of the foundation of the nascent republic in this powerful book george william van cleve demonstrates that the constitution was pro slavery in its politics its economics and its law he convincingly shows that the constitutional provisions protecting slavery were much more than mere political compromises they were integral to the principles of the new . A slaveholders union slavery politics and the constitution in the early american republic by van cleve george william chicago il university of chicago press 2010 pp 391 2600 richard s newman rochester institute of technology search for more papers by this author richard s newman rochester institute of technology search for more papers by this author first published . But increasingly during the contested politics of the early republic abolitionists cried out that the constitution itself was a slaveowners document produced to protect and further their rights a slaveholders union furthers this unsettling claim by demonstrating once and for all that slavery was indeed an essential part of the foundation of the nascent republic in this powerful book george william van cleve demonstrates that the constitution was pro slavery in its politics its