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This 3 page paper discusses Gary Nash's book on the reasons why slavery was institutionalized in America at the time of the founding of the country, when sentiment against it was high. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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one of the causes of the war was that the United States was founded as an independent nation with slavery (which she likened to a serpent coiled under the table
as the Continental Congress hammered out the Constitution), as part of its heritage. In other words, the "founding fathers" set the stage for later conflict by not addressing the
issue of slavery during the Revolutionary period. This is the argument that Gary Nash makes in his book Race and Revolution: that slavery is fundamentally incompatible with a nation
allegedly founded on equality for all; and that we need to look at why it was allowed to remain legal under the Constitution. Discussion Nashs book is in
part a discussion of the institution of slavery itself, and in part a discussion of the scholarship about slavery; particularly the scholarship that seems to accept without question that there
was never any movement to abolish it predating the Civil War. Nash writes, "[I]t is striking to browse among nineteenth- and early twentieth-century histories of the United States and
find how thoroughly historians ... in the antebellum period to postbellum historians ... ignored the antislavery impulse that grew during the revolutionary period" (Nash, 1990, p. 3). This tendency
of historians to consistently underestimate the "depth, the persistence, the pervasiveness, the centrality of race in American society ... perpetuated and reinforced an array of racial stereotypes and myths and
easily justified the need to repress and quarantine black people" (Nash, 1990, p. 3-4). The usual argument advanced for the pro-slavery slant of the Constitution is that the
North knew that the Southern states would not approve the document unless it included slavery as a legal institution in the fabric of the new nation. But Nash argues
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