Research Catalog

Title

Self-evident truths : contesting equal rights from the revolution to the Civil War / Richard D. Brown.

Author

Brown, Richard D.

Publication

New Haven : Yale University Press, 2017.

Details

Description

1 online resource : illustrations (black and white)

Summary

How did Americans in the generations following the Declaration of Independence translate its lofty ideals into practice? In this broadly synthetic work, distinguished historian Richard Brown shows that despite its founding statement that 'all men are created equal', the early Republic struggled with every form of social inequality.

Subject

• Equality > United States > History > 18th century
• Equality > United States > History > 19th century
• United States > Social conditions > To 1865
• United States > History > 1783-1865

Note

• Previously issued in print: 2017.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Audience (note)

• Specialized.

Source of Description (note)

• Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on August 1, 2017).

ISBN

9780300227628

OCLC

EDZ0001643395

Author

Brown, Richard D., author.

Title

Self-evident truths : contesting equal rights from the revolution to the Civil War / Richard D. Brown.

Publisher

New Haven : Yale University Press, 2017.

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

computer

Type of Carrier

online resource

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Audience

Specialized.

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