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Root, Damon,

A glorious liberty : Frederick Douglass and the fight for an antislavery constitution / Damon Root. - 186 pages ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Frederick Douglass's Constitution -- "A Faithful Disciple of William Lloyd Garrison" -- "An Anti-Slavery Instrument" -- "This Hell-Black Judgment of the Supreme Court" -- "Men of Color, to Arms!" -- "One Nation, One Country, One Citizenship" -- A Legacy of Liberty.

"A review of Douglass's ideas about free labor and constitutional liberty in order to understand the origins and meanings of the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments, each of which grew out of the anti-slavery movement that Douglass did so much to shape"--

ISBN: 9781640122352 1640122354

LCCN: 2019058143

Subjects--Personal Names:
Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895.

Subjects--Corporate Names:
United States. 13th Amendment. Constitution.
United States. 14th Amendment. Constitution.
United States. 15th Amendment. Constitution.

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Antislavery movements--History--United States--19th century.
African American abolitionists.
Abolitionists--United States.
Constitutional history--United States.