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A 12 page book review on Gary Nash's Race and Revolution (1990, Madison House Publishers), which presents the intriguing thesis that the Northern statesmen at the time of the nation's founding missed an ideal opportunity to take steps that would have greatly hastened the demise of slavery, and possibly its eradication. Rather than presenting the typical view of this period, which presents the Founding Fathers as principled, enlightened men endeavoring to found a society based on compromise and republican ideals, Nash astutely and persuasively argues that their vacillation and loss of nerve on the matter of slavery committed the nation to the inevitability of an awful and bloody conflict. The page count includes a 1 page outline of this paper. No additional sources cited.
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the demise of slavery, and possibly its eradication. Rather than presenting the typical view of this period, which presents the Founding Fathers as principled, enlightened men endeavoring to found a
society based on compromise and republican ideals, Nash astutely and persuasively argues that their vacillation and loss of nerve on the matter of slavery committed the nation to the inevitability
of an awful and bloody conflict. Summary: The three essays that comprise Nashs text evolved from lectures that the author gave as part of The Merrill Jensen Lectures in Constitutional
Studies, which occurred at the University of Wisconsin in Madison in 1988. In his preface, Nash explain how Jensens work as a historian has had a profound influence on him,
as he regards Jensen as a "seminal thinker" (Nash ix). It is from Jensens scholarship that Nash adopts his stance that the "foundation of government" were created "amidst an
internal struggle between those who were democratically inclined and those who were aristocratically inclined" (Nash ix). However, while Nash agrees with Jensens orientation, he points out that Jensen failed
to examine the issue of slavery and this constitutes the purpose of his lecture series and book, which is that the "American Revolution involved multiple agendas, and some of the
most important and fascinating of them were fashioned by black and white revolutionists who saw race as the great American dilemma" (Nash xi). As mentioned in the introduction to
this review, the most prominent theme of Nashs text is that the Founding Fathers missed an ideal opportunity to begin the process of eradicating slavery in the US. This
is the theme that underscores the first chapter. This theme is explored further in the second chapter, in which Nash associates it with a minor theme that has to do
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