Slavery and Liberty: A Contradiction?

It is a truism in the classrooms, textbooks, and living rooms where we talk about American history that the Revolution created and handed down to later generations something we call liberty. At some point in the lecture or conversation someone customarily points out the irony of a revolution in the name of liberty being carried [...]

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Reading The New Republic

In the 1780’s, looking back on the Revolution, Thomas Jefferson mused that the new American Republic was a completely new model of governing. Old theories, Jefferson thought, would have to be thrown out because the American example was proving so many of the accepted political assumptions wrong. America’s revolution was much [...]

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