Born Equal: Remaking America’s Constitution, 1840–1920 weapon and Georgia’s Governor Joseph Brown

and Georgia’s Governor Joseph Brown intensified

Book 3 of series

and African Americans themselves

During the nineteenth century

some military and some political

Born Equal: Remaking America’s Constitution, 1840–1920 weapon and Georgia’s Governor Joseph Brownby Akhil Reed Amar From one of our most prodigious constitutional scholars (Jonathan Eig), the definitive history of how the ideal of birth equality reshaped the American Constitution, from antebellum debates over slavery and secession, to the Civil War and emancipation, to womens suffrage In 1840, millions of Black Americans groaned in the chains of slavery. By 1920, millions of American men and women of every race had won the vote. In Born Equal,