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An 11 page book review that analyzes the arguments that Gary B. Nash, professor emeritus of history at the University of California at Los Angeles, makes regarding the issue of slavery and how it was addressed, or rather not addressed, by the Founding Fathers in his text Race and Revolution. Besides the text, the only other source is a brief reference to the author's background. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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director for the National Center for History in the Schools and also is a Founding Member and on the Board of Trustees for the National Council for History Education ("Gary
B. Nash"). In addition to Race and Revolution, Nash has authored numerous other texts. Summary As indicated in the Foreword by John P. Kaminski, Race and Revolution is
compilation of the three essays that Professor Nash gave as lectures in The Merrill Jensen Lectures in Constitutional Studies program. There are three essays in the series. Collectively, the three
essays are based on the fascinating idea that the founding of the nation encompassed the perfect opportunity to direct the country toward the abolition of slavery. Rather than support the
traditional view, which judges the Founding Father as principled men who either blinded by or inescapably constrained by the prejudices of their era in regard to the issue of slavery,
Nash argues that Northern statesmen, in particular, vacillated and suffered a loss of nerve that irrevocably committed the new nation to a path that led directly to the awful conflict
that was the American Civil War. As mentioned above, these lectures were originally delivered as part of a series honoring historian Merrill Jensen. Nash pays tribute to Jensen in
his Preface, indicating his regard for him as a "seminal thinker" (Nash ix). Also, he acknowledges that he adopted his stance regarding the founding of the US government from Jensens
scholarship, as he agrees with Jensen that the United States was born from the struggle that occurred between those founders who were "democratically inclined and those who were aristocratically included"
(Nash ix). But while Nash agrees with Jensen, he also feels that Jensen erred in not addressing how the issue of slavery factored into the struggles that characterized the
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