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David Waldstreicher, editor, is Distinguished Professor of History at the Graduate Center, City University of New York, and the author of Slavery’s Constitution: From Revolution to Ratification (2009); Runaway America: Benjamin Franklin, Slavery, and the American Revolution (2004); and In the Midst of Perpetual Fetes: The Making of American Nationalism, 1776–1820 (1997). As editor, his books include A Companion to John Adams and John Quincy Adams (2013).

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	The Odyssey of Phillis Wheatley: A Poet's Journeys Through American Slavery and Independence 3.78 avg rating — 300 ratings — published 2023 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Slavery's Constitution: From Revolution to Ratification 3.69 avg rating — 248 ratings — published 2009 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	In the Midst of Perpetual Fetes: The Making of American Nationalism, 1776-1820 (Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press) 3.57 avg rating — 121 ratings — published 1997 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Runaway America: Benjamin Franklin, Slavery, and the American Revolution 3.43 avg rating — 51 ratings — published 2004 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	John Quincy Adams and the Politics of Slavery: Selections from the Diary by David Waldstreicher, Matthew Mason 4.27 avg rating — 11 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Struggle against Slavery: A History in Documents it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2002 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Emma Goldman it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1990 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Companion to Benjamin Franklin liked it 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2011 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Envisioning America and Notes on the State of Virginia and Confessions of: Nat Turner by David Waldstreicher, Kenneth S. Greenberg, Peter C. Mancall 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2002	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Armenian Americans (Peoples of North America) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 1988 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“And yet slaves were property, and fugitive (runaway) slaves were, by law, criminals who had stolen themselves.”
― David Waldstreicher, Slavery's Constitution: From Revolution to Ratification

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“The founders’ Constitution avoided theorizing African slavery as right or wrong, as an Old World holdover or a New World innovation, as a pillar of the Republic or an anachronism headed for the dustbin of history, as something that could be legislated or something that could not, because they could not agree on these things. The text they enshrined allowed for different possible results: slavery’s continuance, spread, or eventual end.”
― David Waldstreicher, Slavery's Constitution: From Revolution to Ratification

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“Will it not be said, that the greatest Sticklers for Liberty, are its worst Enemies?” Worst of all, in Hughes’s mind, was Benjamin Franklin, head of the Pennsylvania Abolition Society, for helping “frame a Constitution which evidently has a Tendency not only to enslave all those whom it ought to protect; but avowedly encourages” the enslavement of others. As soon as it was adopted, politicians like Franklin would say it was “called for by the people,” Hughes observed, though really it was nothing but a specious deal between North and South: “If you will permit us to import Africans as Slaves, we will consent that you may export Americans, as soldiers.” The supremacy and treaty clauses meant that Americans, like Hessians during the war, could be “detached and transported to the West or East-indies.”
― David Waldstreicher, Slavery's Constitution: From Revolution to Ratification

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