Self-Evident Truths: Contesting Equal Rights from the Revolution to the Civil War By Richard D. Brown

Abstract

Pretty much any day, Americans can read denunciations of the nation’s founding generation and hear announcements that the society they and their descendants have created is not really a globally-recognized success but rather more of a failure, a society that has long professed equality and progress for residents of all sorts but actually functioned for the perpetuation of privilege.